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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"
Gandhi transformed himself into "Sri Kumaré", an enlightened guru from the fictional village of Aali'kash, India, by creating a spiritual philosophy centered around the ideas of illusion and self-empowerment, growing out his hair and beard, and adopting a false Indian accent. Accompanied by a friend and a yoga teacher, he traveled to Phoenix ...
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]
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.
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 ...
The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice is a 2016 history of the modern practice of postural yoga by the yoga scholar Elliott Goldberg. [1] It focuses in detail on eleven pioneering figures of the transformation of yoga in the 20th century, including Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, Pant Pratinidhi, Krishnamacharya, B. K. S. Iyengar and Indra Devi.
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.
Manibhai Haribhai Desai (1897–1989), known as (Shri) Yogendra was an Indian yoga guru, [2] author, poet, researcher [3] and was one of the important figures in the modern revival and transformation of hatha yoga, both in India and United States.