B. K. S. Iyengar
Yoga teacher and author
B. K. S. Iyengar was an Indian yoga teacher and the founder of Iyengar Yoga. His book Light on Yoga was published in 1966.
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Indian Born 1918 in Bellur, India Died 2014
About B. K. S. Iyengar
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar was born on 14 December 1918 in Bellur, Karnataka, India, and died on 20 August 2014. He was a sickly child, and at 15 he went to Mysore to live with the yogi Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. Learning asana practice there gradually improved his health. In 1937 he moved to Pune to teach yoga. In 1952 he met the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who arranged for him to teach in London, Switzerland and Paris, among other places. In 1975 he opened the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, named in memory of his wife. Light on Yoga was published in 1966 and was later translated into 17 languages. Among his other books are Light on Life and Light on Pranayama. India honored him with three Padma awards: the Padma Shri (1991), the Padma Bhushan (2002) and the Padma Vibhushan (2014). Time magazine included him in its 2004 list of the 100 most influential people.