May 1949: Pamela Fawn performing yoga exercises at the Tunbridge Wells ballet school.
December 1974: Kristine Sparkle doing yoga at her home, England.
Circa 1950: The yoga ‘pose of a child’.
Circa 1970: A group of men performing yoga stretching exercises in a sunny park in the Middle East
Circa 1964: Hampstead women practicing yoga in a community hall, London.
March 1963: Hungarian yoga expert Laszlo Szabo demonstrates yoga positions for Budapest TV.
April 1938: Vera Richardson does a yoga pose in a keep fit session.
August 1934: A group of children on a beach doing yoga poses, England.
June 1956: Contortionist Joe Clemendor impresses the audience at a Paris nightclub with his amazing feats of bodily distortion, made possible by his mastery of Yoga technique.
Circa 1970: British violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin during his yoga practice.
December 1963: Italian actress Valentina Cortese smiles at actor Anthony Quinn relaxing in a yoga position in Rome.
Circa 1928: Actress Athene Seyler attempts to contort her body in a yoga pose.
Circa 1964: Hampstead women practicing yoga in a community hall, London.
May 1982: Russian Jewish violinist Yehudi Menuhin stands on his head in a yoga position as he conducts with his feet the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which was playing the 5th symphony of Beethoven.
October 1979: A Yoga training center in Rishikesh, a holy Hindu town in India.
September 1976: Kahti sits in the yoga position, wearing a knitted pant suit.
August 1977: Two men practice yoga in Hyde Park.
July 1970: Stella Cherjas practicing yoga.
August 1993: Indian yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar, center, stands on his head along with his followers at an international yoga convention at Crystal Palace, London
Circa 1940: James Hay-Kellie demonstrating yoga positions.
April 1949: Ballet dancers, Sir Paul Dukes, Pamela Fawn and Julia Warrack, during a yoga demonstration.
Circa 1964: Hampstead women practicing yoga in a community hall, London.
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Teacher Catherine Annis
07747 19 69 14
Soho, London, UK
Fantastic black and white rare vintage photos from the early to mid 1900’s.
What a priceless collection of photos!
Lots of ears rather close to shoulders, strained necks and variations on a postural theme but all thoroughly enjoyed by the facial expressions!
Thank you for sharing them.
Ann xx
These are wonderful. I wish I had taken photos of myself in 1970!
Love the Hampstead ladies doing their shoulder stands with no mats and no padding to protect their necks – and yet they survived!