He
was born in Bellur, a poor and remote Southern Indian village in 1918
but has lived for most of his life in Pune where he established the
Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI). Iyengar yoga is
now taught in over 40 countries worldwide and there is a network of
180 national Iyengar Yoga Associations all stemming from BKS Iyengar’s
Institute in India. His study and mastery of yoga are unrivalled in
modern times and he has won universal recognition for his achievements
in the popularisation of yoga, making it accessible and relevant to
people everywhere. He has set the highest standards in the teaching
and practice of this discipline. His many books e.g. ‘Light
on Yoga’, ‘Light on Pranayama’, are classics. In
2004, BKS Iyengar was named one of the 100 most influential people
in the world by Time Magazine. |