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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 ]
B.K.S. Iyengar was born into a poor Sri Vaishnava Iyengar family [10] in Bellur, Kolar district, [11] Karnataka, India.He was the 11th of 13 children (10 of whom survived) born to Sri Krishnamachar, a school teacher, and Sheshamma. [12]
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) - Founder of Iyengar Yoga; Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) - Yoga teacher, often referred to as the "Father of modern Yoga" Padmabhushan Krishna Srinivas, POET, Founder of World Poetry Society and World Congress of Poets. Indira Parthasarathy (b 1930) - writer, playwright, scholar
Angela Farmer's yoga teaching was transformed by seeing sensuous sculptures of female figures in a Hindu temple. [1] ( Yogini shown) . Farmer was born c. 1939 and grew up near London, [2] her father Richard Farmer being English, her mother American. [3]
The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice is a 2016 history of the modern practice of postural yoga by the yoga scholar Elliott Goldberg. [1] It focuses in detail on eleven pioneering figures of the transformation of yoga in the 20th century, including Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, Pant Pratinidhi, Krishnamacharya, B. K. S. Iyengar and Indra Devi.
Mary Louise Palmer Dunn (2 June 1942 – 4 September 2008) was an American instructor in Iyengar Yoga, and a founding member of its institutes in America. She was seen as a teacher's teacher within the tradition.