The BKSYAA brings together students and yoga teachers committed to promoting, protecting and disseminating the art, science and philosophy of yoga according to the teachings of Yohacharya BKS Iyengar, one of the foremost yoga masters alive in the world today.
Sage Patanjali, who has penned this subject in his treatise Yoga Darshana defines yoga as chitta vritti nirodha. Chitta is the consciousness which includes the mind, the intellect and the ego. Yoga is a method of silencing the vibrations of the chitta.
