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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"
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.
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.
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 ]
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 ...
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 ]
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.
Having travelled a lot, he has been sharing his experience and expertise in yoga with Indian as well as foreign enthusiasts on different TV channels since 1978. Bhushan has worked with the Indian armed forces, industries, scientists, schools, colleges and people of different religious faiths.