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Patanjali is honoured with invocations and shrines in some modern schools of yoga, including Iyengar Yoga [63] and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. [64] The yoga scholar David Gordon White writes that yoga teacher training often includes "mandatory instruction" [65] in the Yoga Sutra.
[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. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who is often referred to as "the father of modern yoga". [4]
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.
A. G. Mohan (born 1945) is an Indian yoga teacher, [2] [3] [4] author, [5] and co-founder of Svastha Yoga & Ayurveda. [6] [7] Mohan was a longtime [8] disciple of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989), the "father of modern yoga".
A few decades later, a very different form of yoga, the prevailing yoga as exercise, was created by Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, and Krishnamacharya, starting in the 1920s.It was predominantly physical, consisting mainly or entirely of asanas, postures derived from those of hatha yoga, but with a contribution from western gymnastics (Niels Bukh's 1924 Primary Gymnastics [6] [7]).
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.
One distinctive feature of the Yoga Yajnavalkya is that kuṇḍalinī is mostly described as a blockage that prevents prāṇa from entering the suṣumnā and rising. This was the main textual basis of the teachings on kuṇḍalinī by T. Krishnamacharya, who is often called 'the father of modern yoga'. [109]
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.