Go to any yoga studio these days and you’re liable to find a wide variety of options to fit your yoga needs. But when the practice first crossed into the Western mainstream in the early 1970s, Iyengar ...

For his immense contribution to yoga, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991. The International Yoga Day which fosters global awareness of yoga and its multifaceted benefits for physical and mental ...

In contemporary yoga classes, teachers often speak of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras,” a philosophical text compiled around two thousand years ago, as the wellspring of the practice. This requires an ...

Yoga popularizer, entrepreneur, and guru B. K. S. Iyengar died on Wednesday in the Indian city of Pune at the age of 95. The “Lion of Pune” had a robust persona that will be greatly missed, not only ...

Ever heard of Iyengar yoga before? While vinyasa yoga and ashtanga yoga are two of the more popular types of yoga in the Western world, Iyengar isn't quite as well known. That's not to say it's any ...