Yoga teacher Petra Winkler-Hirter credits yoga with teaching her to live in the present moment – and to accept her mortality. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, and discovering it had spread to her ...
Go to any yoga studio these days and you’re liable to find a wide variety of options to fit your yoga needs. But when the practice first crossed into the Western mainstream in the early 1970s, Iyengar ...
The man widely credited with popularising yoga in the West has died. How did an Indian boy born into disease and poverty grow up to transform the way the world keeps fit? Right now, on exercise mats ...
Before he became one of the West’s most influential teachers of yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar was a frail baby in a poor family in India. Born in 1918 during a worldwide flu epidemic, he survived infancy only ...
In contemporary yoga classes, teachers often speak of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras,” a philosophical text compiled around two thousand years ago, as the wellspring of the practice. This requires an ...
World-renowned yoga instructor BKS Iyengar, who popularised the art form in the West, breathed his last at the age of 96 in a private hospital in Pune. World-renowned yoga instructor BKS Iyengar, who ...
Until Mr Iyengar fell ill last year, he could still hold a headstand for more than half an hour, as Sanjoy Majumder reports Indian yoga guru BKS Iyengar has died in the western city of Pune, aged 95.
As a former professional tennis player, Asif Ismail was used to living with injuries. Years of playing left him with a torn meniscus (the fibrous cartilage in the knee joint) in his left knee for ...
The man widely credited with popularising yoga in the West has died. How did an Indian boy born into disease and poverty grow up to transform the way the world keeps fit? Right now, on exercise mats ...