We've lived in Madison for a few years now and have been attempting to get back into Iyengar Yoga (which we did while we lived in Las Vegas and it helped our pain soo much). I have some chronic sciatica pain that flares up every now and then and lately I've had some ankle pain. I refuse to turn to pain medication because I don't want to be dependent on them and I refuse to have any surgery because surgery isn't a good long-term solution. And my husband has some chronic back pain and he won't turn to pain medication for the same reasons. Enter: yoga! (More specifically, Iyengar Yoga)
We did the Level I Iyengar on Sunday with Katie. I loved the unpretentious atmopshere the room has. Katie was very welcoming and understanding of the limitations we have due to pain issues, which, from what I understand, is important for an Iyengar class. My husband had very positive thoughts about it, which I felt was important because he has training (to become a yoga teacher) in this.
I think the thing I felt was a bit of a drawback for me was we didn't keep the poses nearly as long as I wouldve liked to feel the stretch. We did do more complicated poses (it was a a standing pose class this time) and, per my husband, who has training in Iyengar Yoga, he said that because we did more complicated poses, we didn't keep to keep the positions long.
We plan to go more as our schedule allow!