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Main building of the Himalayan Institute's headquarters, Pennsylvania. The Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy is an international non-profit organization, which promotes yoga and holistic health through yoga retreats, residential programs, health products and services, media publications including Yoga International magazine, and humanitarian projects.
1960s: Iyengar Yoga - B.K.S. Iyengar [17] 1970s: Yin Yoga - Paulie Zink [19] 1971: Bikram Yoga - Bikram Choudhury [17] 1980s: Viniyoga - tradition of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya [17] 1980s: Rocket Yoga - Larry Schultz [20] 1982: Forrest Yoga - Ana T. Forrest [17] 1986: Jivamukti Yoga - David Life and Sharon Gannon [17] 1992: Isha Yoga - Sadhguru ...
Swami Rama (Svāmī Rāma; 1925 – 13 November 1996) was an Indian yoga guru. [1] He moved to the US in 1969, initially teaching yoga at the YMCA, and founding the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Illinois in 1971; its headquarters moved to its current location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1977.
Kaivalyadhama, officially the Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Centre, [1] is a spiritual, therapeutic, and research centre founded by Swami Kuvalayananda in 1924. It aims to coordinate ancient yogic arts and tradition with modern science. Kuvalayananda founded the journal Yoga Mimamsa at the same time. [2]
Yoga tourism is travel with the specific purpose of experiencing some form of yoga, whether spiritual or postural. The former is a type of spiritual tourism; the latter is related both to spiritual and to wellness tourism. Yoga tourists often visit ashrams in India to study yoga or to be trained and certified as yoga teachers.
Tara Jauhar (born 1936) is a writer and educationist from Delhi, India who has dedicated her life for disseminating the teachings of Sri Aurobindo who was an Indian philosopher, yoga guru, poet and nationalist who advocated a philosophy of life based on spiritual evolution.
Iyengar Yoga became an institution with the 1975 founding of the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, named in memory of his wife. [3] A further major step was the founding of the first of many institutes abroad, the Iyengar Yoga Institute (IYI) in Maida Vale, London, in 1983. [3]
Rumtek Monastery is known as the Dharma Chakra Centre. The Monastery was rebuilt in the 1960s by the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. The monastery is the main seat of the Karmapa lineage, It is located in Sikkim, India Rumtek Monastery is known as the Dharma Chakra Centre. It is the main seat of the Karmapa lineage, References: 1.