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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014) was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise, known as "Iyengar Yoga", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world.
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar with his intellectual and spiritual practices has masterminded the techniques which can be used by all practitioners of yoga.
Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, and described in his bestselling 1966 book Light on Yoga, is a form of yoga as exercise that has an emphasis on detail, precision and alignment in the performance of yoga postures .
Jan 19, 2017 · As the author of the world-famous 'Light on Yoga,' B.K.S. Iyengar's influence on modern yoga was, and still is, far-reaching. Learn how Iyengar's teaching style inspired millions of students and how his philosophy, yoga for everyone, has shaped yoga.
B.K.S. Iyengar (born December 14, 1918, Bellur, Karnataka, India—died August 20, 2014, Pune, Maharashtra) was an Indian teacher and popularizer of Yoga, a system of Indian philosophy. Iyengar was born into a large impoverished family.
Yogacharya B.K.S.Iyengar (Guruji) is a living legend who has taught yoga in unique way to all his students. He finds the meaning of the yoga sutras by his practical search and regular practice of yoga. Thus, he has helped all to experience the wisdom of the yoga sutras.
The eleventh of thirteen children, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (BKS) Iyengar was born in Bellur, India on December 14th, 1918. A self-described weak and sickly child, Iyengar found the earliest years of his life marked by poverty and illness, including tuberculosis, malaria, and typhoid.
Aug 20, 2014 · NEW DELHI — B. K. S. Iyengar, who helped introduce the practice of yoga to a Western world awakening to the notion of an inner life, died on Wednesday in the southern Indian city of Pune. He was...
Aug 21, 2014 · BKS Iyengar, who has died at the age of 95, was credited by many with helping make this happen. In 2002, the New York Times suggested: "Perhaps no one has done more than Mr Iyengar to bring yoga...
Nov 10, 2021 · No single person has shaped twenty-first-century global yoga more than B.K.S. Iyengar, whose eight decades of assiduous daily practice, writing, and teaching brought yoga to millions. A Retrospective Timeline on B.K.S. Iyengar’s Life
