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Modern yoga gurus are leaders with a mass following in any aspect of yoga, whether spiritual or physical, in the modern age, identified as gurus both in popular accounts and by scholars. Pages in category "Modern yoga gurus"
People from India who teach a form of yoga and who are venerated as gurus or who have a large number of followers, within India or internationally. Pages in category "Indian yoga gurus" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Vishnudevananda arrived in San Francisco in December 1957, and began to teach yoga; he moved to New York to teach hatha yoga in 1958. [2] The practice he taught, which he named Sivananda Yoga after his guru, consisted largely of asanas, yoga postures, but rather than emphasising yoga as exercise, he taught a combination of yoga philosophy, the shatkarmas or purifications, the sattvic diet, and ...
Modern yoga gurus are people widely acknowledged to be gurus of modern yoga in any of its forms, whether religious or not. The role implies being well-known and having a large following; in contrast to the old guru-shishya tradition , the modern guru-follower relationship is not secretive, not exclusive, and does not necessarily involve a ...
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (or Gurumayi or Swami Chidvilasananda), born Malti Shetty on 24 June 1955, is the guru or spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga path, with ashrams in India at Ganeshpuri and the Western world, with the headquarters of the SYDA foundation in Fallsburg, New York.
He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise, known as "Iyengar Yoga", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga , Light on Pranayama , Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali , and Light on Life .
Hansa Yogendra (born 8 October 1947) is an Indian yoga guru, author, researcher and TV personality. [1] [2] [3] She is director of The Yoga Institute in Mumbai, founded by her father-in-law Shri Yogendra.
Through his books, lectures, recordings and TV programs, he brought Yoga to more people than any other person alive at the time. He was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It has been said that Richard Hittleman introduced Yoga to literally millions of people via the medium of television. [ 6 ]