Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The passing last week of Indian yoga giant B.K.S. Iyengar has been cause for mourning among practitioners across the West, where he is credited with bringing ...

The 95-Year-Old introduced one of the most popular practices in the West. B.K.S. Iyengar gives a yoga demonstration to tennis players at a pre-Wimbledon party in a London suburb in June, 1960.

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 ...

In its American form, yoga can sometimes seem like it's less about meditation than fitness, extreme sweatiness, and the absurdity of trying to balance on your head while wearing hot-pink lycra pants.

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 ...

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 ...

Cary Au-Yeung suffered from anxiety and insomnia. A busy corporate executive in Hong Kong, she spent long hours at work and travelled a lot. When her father fell ill in 2016, her stress levels soared.

Indian yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, who helped popularize yoga around the world and wrote 14 books on the subject, died Aug. 20 at 95. Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar’s death was reported on his ...

LUCKY SEVERSON, guest host: One of the numerous ways that people in this country try to get fit these days is through the practice of yoga. There are many different forms of this discipline, but the ...

Indian yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, who helped popularize yoga around the world and wrote 14 books on the subject, died Wednesday. He was 95. Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar’s death was reported ...