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 ...

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 ...

Indian yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, who helped popularize yoga around the world and wrote 14 books on the subject, died Aug. 20 at 95. Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar’s death was reported on his ...

The 95-Year-Old introduced one of the most popular practices in the West. B.K.S. Iyengar gives a yoga demonstration to tennis players at a pre-Wimbledon party in a London suburb in June, 1960.

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 ...

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 ...

Before he became one of the West’s most influential teachers of yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar was a frail baby in a poor family in India. Born in 1918 during a worldwide flu epidemic, he survived infancy only ...

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 ...

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