Yoga the Iyengar Way

The book presents the asanas with a combination of a brief text and photographs of Mira and Shyam on a single page or a double-page spread.

[MMM 1] Silva ran the first yoga teacher training program approved by the Inner London Education Authority, from 1970.

[3] Mira has been called "the most senior [Iyengar] Yoga teacher outside India, recognised as an authority in all its aspects: asana, pranayama, philosophy and therapy.

Each asana is described with a combination of short paragraphs of text and photographs (about half in colour) of Shyam or Mira Mehta.

Some of the key Iyengar Yoga asanas such as Utthita Trikonasana are given a double-page spread;[MMM 2] others get a single page.

Each pose is named in Sanskrit (in a pale colour, giving the effect of a decorative frieze at the top of the page) and in transliteration with diacritic marks.

"[6] Pizer comments that many practitioners see the book as a complement to Iyengar's own Light on Yoga, and that the combination of big colour illustrations and "explicit alignment points"[6] actually make it rather more approachable.

The book closely integrates text and photographs, showing how to enter the pose, here Virabhadrasana I , how to work within it, and how to use props such as yoga bricks to work correctly if the pose is found difficult. [ MMM 2 ] The effect is "rather more approachable" than Iyengar 's own presentation . [ 6 ]
1991 ten-rupee Indian postage stamp marked "Utthita trikonasana"