Geeta Iyengar’s words for her father

Within 12 hours from Guruji’s death at 20th August 3:15 AM Indian Standard Time the last rites and the cremation took place in Pune. We would like to share with you Geetaji’s last words for her father, B.K.S. Iyengar: “Only his body has ended. One person’s efforts from inside out, changed the acceptance of yoga…

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Happy 95th Birthday to BKS Iyengar!

“Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.” – BKS Iyengar Today, December 14th, 2013, is yoga master BKS Iyengar’s 95th birthday. Born in 1918, BKS Iyengar is a living legend, as the founder of Iyengar yoga, the writer of many authoritative books on yoga, and the yoga acharya…

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Omkarananda Ashram, Rishikesh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXpJRXDbA0

This is the first of many videos you will see from yoga.in! Omkarananda is one of our top yoga centers in our book “Yoga in India: A journey to the top 24 yoga places”. We hope you enjoy it and that the wonderful Usha Devi inspires you to come to incredible India!

Namaste

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More Iyengar yoga classes

To understand more about Iyengar yoga, this morning we went to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute again. Our first yoga class was conducted by Sri Prashant S. Iyengar, the son of B.K.S. Iyengar and director of the institute – also an authority in yoga. His style is more philosophical. The next class was a…

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Yog-Ganga Center for Yoga Studies, Dehradun

Today we left Rishikesh after a week along the banks of the Ganges river. Our next destination: The Yog-Ganga Center for Yoga Studies in Dehradun. Swati and Rajiv Chanchani teach Iyengar yoga, with an approach different from everything we had seen before. According to their strict philosophy, they don’t want to promote themselves, thus they only allowed…

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Iyengar yoga class in Rishikesh

Usha Devi teaches strict Iyengar yoga at the Omkarananda Ashram in Rishikesh. “Do less, but do it with understanding”, “See how the mind has to be connected with the body”, “Listen, you are not in holidays”, “Come on! Quickly!” – these are some of the words you could hear during her morning class which we attended. There…

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Omkarananda Ashram, Rishikesh

We met Usha Devi at 10am, just after her morning class in the Omkarananda Ashram in Rishikesh. Her guruji is none other than world famous B.K.S. Iyengar, the founder of Iyengar yoga. Each year Usha spends a couple of months in Pune where she’s in direct contact with Guruji, while the rest of the year she stays…

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