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Bikram Choudhury (born 1944) is an Indian-American yoga guru, [2] and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga consisting of a fixed series of 26 postures practised in a hot environment of 40 °C (104 °F). The business became a success in the United States and then across the Western world, with a variety of celebrity pupils.
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.
B.K.S. Iyengar was born into a poor Sri Vaishnava Iyengar family [10] in Bellur, Kolar district, [11] Karnataka, India.He was the 11th of 13 children (10 of whom survived) born to Sri Krishnamachar, a school teacher, and Sheshamma. [12]
Amrit Desai is a pioneer of yoga in the West, and one of the few remaining living yoga gurus who originally brought over the authentic teachings of yoga in the early 1960s. [2] [3] He is the creator of two brands of yoga, Kripalu Yoga and I AM Yoga, and is the founder of five yoga and health centers in the US. His yoga training programs have ...
Murugan Chillayah, also known as Guruji Murugan (Tamil: குருஜி முருகன், Sanskrit: गुरुजी मुरुगन) (born November 22, 1978), is a Malaysian Indian of Tamil ancestry who is a teacher of several Indian traditional arts, a yoga guru, and a spiritual leader. He is referred to as Guruji (honorific).
Dharma Mittra is a guru of modern yoga [1] and a student of Swami Kailashananda. [2]Mittra's 1984 "Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures", his best-known work [3] [4]. Mittra is known for his Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures, each asana illustrated with a photograph of Mittra performing the pose. [3]
Gurus of Modern Yoga is an edited 2014 collection of essays on some of the gurus (leaders) of modern yoga by the yoga scholars Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg. [1]The book has been broadly welcomed by critics as a necessary introduction to some of these figures, though some of them have regretted the book's lack of an evaluation of recent research on the place of the guru in modern yoga, or ...
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.