Gomukhāsana – Meg Laing – 30/05/2022

30th May 2022

Gomukhāsana is a pose known to all Iyengar Yoga students from a very early stage in their learning but, for most, just as an ‘arms only’ pose. Although Gomukhāsana features in Geeta Iyengar’s Preliminary Course (pp. 61-62), the full pose was not on the pre-2020 Introductory syllabus. This means that in the past many teachers never learned to teach it and, very unfortunately, it tended to be rather forgotten by some teachers even at intermediate level. It is a great joy to some of us that the full pose is now on the extended Level 1 syllabus. Gomukhāsana is a marvellous pose, and one that for me embodies the yogic principle of harmony in the embodiment of body, mind and breath.

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Sections (if relevant):
4.2 Syllabus Level 1

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• Gomukhāsana text
• Gomukhāsana front photo
• Gomukhāsana back photo
• Gomukhāsana preparation 1 photos
• Gomukhāsana preparation 2 photos

30/05/2022