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BKS Iyengar
20 August is the death anniversary of B.K.S.Iyengar (1918 -2014), world-renowned Yoga-guru.
An eminent exponent of yoga and founder of the Iyengar School of Yoga, he taught Yoga as enunciated in the ancient “Patanjali Sutra”.
B.K.S. Iyengar is credited with spreading the practice of yoga to about 60 countries which he visited – carrying the message from the East to the West.
His Iyengar Institute of Yoga has a large following of disciples within and outside the country.
Hailed as a “modern Rishi”, Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar set up over 100 branches of his institute in different countries.
Born in 1918, at Bellur in Karnataka, he came to Pune in Maharashtra in 1937. He set up his own ‘Yogavidya’ institute in 1975 which later expanded in various branches across the country and abroad.
The internationally acclaimed yoga guru had taught ‘yogasanas’ to many prominent personalities among whom were eminent author Aldos Huxley, socialist leader Jayprakash Narayan, philosopher
J. Krishnamurti and world renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
He has written 14 books on yoga. His techniques came to be known as ‘Iyengar Yoga’.
His books have been translated into 17 languages.
Always full of life and energy that belied his age, the Yoga-guru had a keen interest in art, dance and theatre as also cricket.
