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The guru–shishya tradition involved a long-term, one-to-one relationship between master and pupil. [3] Watercolour, Punjab Hills, India, 1740. Before the creation of modern yoga, hatha yoga was practised in secret by solitary, ascetic yogins, learning the tradition as a long-term pupil or shishya apprenticed to their master or guru.
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.
A chief disciple of the yoga guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, he was sent by his lineage to spread the teachings of yoga to the West. He immigrated to the US at the age of 27 [ 2 ] to prove the unity between Eastern and Western religions and to preach a balance between Western material growth and Indian spirituality. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (18 November 1888 – 28 February 1989) [1] [2] was an Indian yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. He is seen as one of the most important gurus of modern yoga, [3] and is often called "Father of Modern Yoga" for his wide influence on the development of postural yoga.
Satchidananda taught a blend of hatha yoga and yoga philosophy which he named Integral Yoga. [14] In 1971, he began training students to teach yoga in prisons and drug rehabilitation centers. [ 23 ] In 1976, Sandra McLanahan founded one of the first integrative health clinics in the US, offering yoga therapy , at that time new to America. [ 24 ]
Adriene’s instinct was to create more videos using yoga, breath work, and meditation to help with panic and anxiety. But her partner and inner circle encouraged her to focus on healing first.
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"