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 ...

LUCKY SEVERSON, guest host: One of the numerous ways that people in this country try to get fit these days is through the practice of yoga. There are many different forms of this discipline, but the ...

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 ...

Yoga guru BKS Iyengar passed away on August 20, 2014, leaving behind a message 'I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.'(as per his website). The yoga guru, who is also hailed as the ...

Yoga, which has become an essential part of any new age life style, has its roots in more ancient and less relaxing traditions. In Omnibus Mark Tully meets B K S Iyengar, one of yoga's finest teachers ...

BKS Iyengar at his institute in Pune with a statue of his young self at the background. Photo: Namas Bhojani for SZ magazine With arms around the shoulders of his granddaughter Abhijata, B.K.S.

The man widely credited with popularising yoga in the West has died. How did an Indian boy born into disease and poverty grow up to transform the way the world keeps fit? Right now, on exercise mats ...

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 ...

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, the legendary Yogacharya, leaves behind a legacy which breathed new life into yoga and made it popular all over the world. When B K S Iyengar started teaching ...