Iyengar Yoga with Susan Johnson

🤔 Why are you drawn to yoga when others aren't?

In this thought-provoking clip from Episode 56 of On the Light, Prashant Iyengar offers a perspective that reaches far beyond this lifetime.

Why do siblings raised in the same home develop such different interests? Why did B.K.S. Iyengar, T.K.V. Desikachar, and Pattabhi Jois—students of the same teacher—each carry yoga in such different directions?

Prashantji suggests that the answer may lie in our saṃskāras—the impressions and karmic inheritance we bring with us from previous lives.

✨ "You have your own baggage of previous karmas... and because of that association, you are what you are today."

This conversation invites us to consider that our attraction to Yog may not be accidental, but part of a much longer spiritual journey.

🎧 Listen to Episode 56: History Begins with You – Prashant Iyengar

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“Teach from the heart, not the brain.”
— Geeta Iyengar

What does that actually mean?

In this episode of On the Light, Mary Reilly reflects on Geetaji’s first principle in The Art of Teaching—and why it’s far deeper than memorizing instructions.

Real teaching doesn’t come from rehearsed words.

It comes from practice.
From doing the pose again and again…
Until the understanding lives in your body.

Then when you see a student, something responds from within you.

And that is what you say.

It’s a powerful reminder for teachers and practitioners alike—because in yoga, it’s easy to get lost in all the “wonderful words.”

🎧 Listen to the full conversation with Mary Reilly on On the Light.

It doesn’t have to be three hours.

Someone once asked Guruji,
“How much time should a normal person practice each day?”

His answer:

40 minutes.

Not teachers.
Not full-time students.
Just regular people living full lives.

Forty minutes in the morning.
After work.
Before dinner.

Forty minutes to turn inward.
To return to yourself.

In this episode of On the Light, Gloria Goldberg reflects on the quiet power of daily practice — and how something so simple can make a profound difference.

It makes a big difference.

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“Among all the Vedas, I am Sama Veda.”

Prashant Iyengar takes us back to the source—
to sound as Jnana, spiritual knowledge.
To Sama Veda, the most musical of the Vedas.
To Gandharva Veda, where music and dance belong not to performance…
but to the celestial realm itself.

This is where Bharatiya Sangeet begins—not as art,
but as revelation.
Not for entertainment,
but for awakening.

If you’ve ever sensed that sound can carry wisdom beyond words,
this conversation will change how you listen. 🎶✨

🎧 Don’t miss this one.




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