B.K.S.Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95

[pleinair]

NEW DELHI — B. K. S. Iyengar, who helped introduce the practice of yoga to a Western world awakening to the notion of an inner life, died on Wednesday in the southern Indian city of Pune. He was 95.

The cause was heart failure, said Abhijata Sridhar-Iyengar, his granddaughter.

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Ms. Sridhar-Iyengar said her grandfather recognized early on that yoga, up until then viewed as a mystical pursuit, “had something for everybody, not just the intellectually or spiritually inclined.”

“He felt satisfied,” she said. “He took yoga to the world. He knew that.”

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[Triana]

1. I have a couple of his books. n/t

[pleinair]

2. Yoga is so mainstream now in our culture

that it's hard to remember when it was outside the norm.

[Triana]

3. In the 60s, the "hippies" did it. Now it's part of mainstream culture.

It has definitely changed Western life for the better, IMO.