Studio Iyengar Yoga APS - Torino

19/03/2026

“Guruji thought us yoga through the asana. He was a yoga teacher, he was not an asana teacher. He has given us yoga. Now understand that in all the asana there is of yoga provided you have the right frame of mind.”

Abhijata intermediate 2023-01-24

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13/03/2026

✨Today’s yoga is a materialistic yoga. I want to be fine in my life. I want to have advantage. I want to have benefits. This is materialism.

I want to have benefits, therefore I do yoga.

So yoga can quickly become _bhoga_ and that’s why you should be cautious. That’s why the ethos teaches us: _Yoga, bhoga_ .
Prashant Ji prāṇāyāma III 2026-2-06

It should not become a consumption, consumer product for you. I feel fine, therefore without fail I do my class because I feel fine. This is consumerism.

If we practice āsana for the sake of emancipation, then it is called yogāsana. If we perform it for the sake of pleasure, then it is bhogāsana.

Yogācārya B.K.S. Iyengar
Aṣṭādaḷā Yogamālā, Allied Publishers Private Ltd, Vol. 2, p. 77

Yogāsana are not an entertainment (bhogāsana), into twists and bends of strange and unnatural positions, but a part of an inward journey. Ibid. Vol. 7, p. 106

11/03/2026

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19/02/2026

We are happy to announce..

*4-Day Online Iyenagr Yoga Sessions* with Sri.Srineet S Iyenagr.e

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1. Timings: 23rd-25th:- 4PM -5.45PM (IST)
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18/02/2026

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15/02/2026

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09/02/2026

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Here is the full-length interview of Geetaji, excerpts of which were used in the final documentary, sharing her recollections of and tribute to her father, Y...

09/02/2026

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Watch this interview! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6FTk4-91Dk

09/02/2026

"We don’t know what we are or who we are, we become nothing but public opinion. And then gossip becomes a very significant factor. The only way to get rid of it is to know yourself on your own. Then you are neither old nor young, neither man nor woman. You are simply a pure consciousness, which has no age because it is eternal.

And it has no ge***al differences; a woman does not have a different consciousness from a man. At the height of consciousness, all duality disappears. So the best thing that I can say to you is, discover yourself; otherwise, you have to depend on other people’s opinions, who don’t know themselves."

08/02/2026

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05/02/2026

✨“Identify the pavana, the vayu, the prana as internal conative agency, cognitive agency, sensitive agency, awarenessative agency.”

Pranayama III_Prashant Ji_2026-1-30

Prashant ji is not using these terms as simple synonyms for breath/wind. He is attributing different qualities of awareness and agency to each.
Prashant ji seems to be describing breath as a multi-layered intelligent system:�Pavana - Internal Conative Agency
* Conative comes from conation = the will, the desire to act, the drive
* Pavana (the purifier) is the breath as an internal willful, purposeful force that drives action from within
* It acts without external instruction - self-motivated
Vāyu - Cognitive Agency
* Cognitive = relating to knowledge, understanding, perception
* Vāyu is the breath as a knowing force - it carries intelligence and discernment
* It perceives and understands
Prāṇa - Sensitive Agency
* Sensitive = relating to sensation, feeling, receptivity
* Prāṇa is the breath as a feeling, receptive force - it senses and responds
* It is alive to experience
This mirrors classical philosophy’s distinction between sensation → cognition → volition
The Deeper Teaching:

Prashantji is asking students to move beyond simply doing breathing exercises mechanically. Instead, he’s inviting them to recognize breath as a multi-layered intelligent system with:

- Its own internal wisdom (pavana)
- Its own cognitive capacity (vāyu)
- Its own awareness (prāṇa)

This connects beautifully to what you mentioned earlier about the “you-ers”

(See note in Prashant Ji prāṇāyāma III 2026-1-23) -

the idea that the body/breath/mind systems are themselves doers with their own intelligence, rather than the ego trying to control everything.

*notes by Maria Paola Grilli with AI support