Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar was creative when it came to using the anatomical words. Yet his creativity was only to bring more precision in his teaching. He would take one single part of the foot, and then break it into several little parts, and ask the students to spread their awareness in those areas. Head of the heel, neck of the heel, body of the heel, foot of the heel, outer heel, inner heel and the back of the heel. There have been moments when he has called the heel “the moon”. We can however begin with these basic anatomical parts which if one familiarises oneself with, one finds it easier to follow the instructions.

We have dealt in this part with 10 parts in the anterior body and 7 parts in the posterior body.

Anterior body: clavicles, top chest, armpit chest, sternum, front ribs, floating ribs, hip, groin, pubis, inner groin…

Posterior body: trapezius, shoulder blades, back ribs, spine, sacrum, tail-bone, sitting bones…