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Eugenie Peterson (Latvian: Eiženija Pētersone, Russian: Евгения Васильевна Петерсон; 12 May 1899 – 25 April 2002), [2] known as Indra Devi, was a pioneering teacher of yoga as exercise, and an early disciple of the "father of modern yoga", [3] Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.
MacGregor is the creator of the Miami Yoga Magazine started in 2012, [19] and the online yoga and holistic platform Omstars in 2017. [20] Together with her husband Tim Feldmann, [21] she opened the yoga studio Miami Life Center in Miami Beach, Florida in 2006. [22] In 2008, Yoga Journal named MacGregor on its list of top 21 teachers under 40. [23]
A number of yoga texts, such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads, have borrowed from (or frequently refer to) the Yoga Yajnavalkya. [196] It discusses eight yoga asanas (Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura), [197] a number of breathing exercises for body cleansing, [198] and ...
CorePower Yoga is considered to have its own yoga class style combining power yoga, ashtanga yoga, and vinyasa flow yoga. [9] Classes are offered in heated rooms as well as non-heated. CorePower also started offering CorePower Yoga On Demand and CorePower At Home Membership in 2020, which offers classes both pre-recorded and live virtually. [10]
The practice of yoga as consisting mainly of physical postures began in 1919 when the pioneer of asana-based yoga, Yogendra, brought his system, influenced by physical culture, to the United States. From 1948, Indra Devi, a pupil of Krishnamacharya, brought yoga to public attention by teaching celebrity pupils in her Hollywood studio.
A yoga class of women in Los Angeles. Modern yoga as exercise has often been taught by women to classes consisting mainly of women. This continued a tradition of gendered physical activity dating back to the early 20th century, with the Harmonic Gymnastics of Genevieve Stebbins in the US and Mary Bagot Stack in Britain.
Women in an outdoor yoga community class, Texas, 2010. Yoga as exercise is a physical activity consisting mainly of postures, often connected by flowing sequences, sometimes accompanied by breathing exercises, and frequently ending with relaxation lying down or meditation.
Hatha yoga (/ ˈ h ʌ t ə, ˈ h ɑː t ə /; IAST: Haṭha-yoga) [2] is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy. The Sanskrit word हठ haṭha literally means "force", alluding to a system of physical techniques.