{"id":1836,"date":"2013-12-14T13:10:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T07:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:04:25","slug":"happy-95th-birthday-to-bks-iyengar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/2013\/12\/14\/happy-95th-birthday-to-bks-iyengar\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 95th Birthday to BKS Iyengar!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.\u201d – BKS Iyengar<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 of many students and followers all over the world.<\/p>\n

BKS Iyengar has been practicing, teaching and writing about yoga for over 75 years\u2026 We see where yoga is today \u2013 thanks to his many classes and demonstrations, and many many books which have become guidebooks for so many students. Which yogi can say he or she was not influenced directly or indirectly by BKS Iyengar? His contribution to yoga is boundless and overwhelming.<\/p>\n

A life dedicated to yoga – thank you BKS Iyengar!<\/p>\n

The yoga.in team wishes Guruji a blessed 95th birthday!<\/p>\n

Image credit:\u00a0Coni H\u00f6rler Photography<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.\u201d – 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…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":52586621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[249347902],"tags":[972628,313681],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-luminaries","tag-bks-iyengar","tag-iyengar-yoga","col-sm-6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-large":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-large":false,"newspack-article-block-square-large":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-square-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-square-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-small":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-small":false,"newspack-article-block-square-small":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-square-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-uncropped":false,"ippo-archive-featured-image":false,"ippo-carousel-slider-image":false,"ippo-sticky-featured-image":false,"ippo-single-featured-image":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"yoga.in team","author_link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/author\/yogainteam\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\u201cYoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.\u201d – 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…","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfTPB5-tC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52586621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}