Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (November 18, 1888 – February 28, 1989)was an Indian yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. Often referred to as “the father of modern yoga,”Krishnamacharya is widely regarded as one of the most influential yoga teachers of the 20th century and is credited with the revival of hatha yoga.
Krishnamacharya held degrees in [...]
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B. K. S. Iyengar -(Born December 14, 1918, in Bellur, Kolar District,[1] Karnataka, India) is the founder of Iyengar Yoga, although he himself would not call it Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 75 years. He has [...]
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Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois (July 26, 1915– May 18, 2009) was an Indian yoga teacher. He was a student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and taught at his school, the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, in Mysore, India. Pattabhi Jois is widely acknowledged as this generation’s master of ashtanga yoga. [...]
Continue Reading →Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a system of yoga popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois, and which is often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Indian yoga.[1] Pattabhi Jois began his yoga studies in 1927 at the age of 12, and by 1948 had established an institute for teaching the specific yoga practice known as Ashtanga [...]
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