B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades: 1950s Rare & Historical Photographs

By catherine on March 16, 2015 | This entry has been posted in BKS, Vintage

B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades

We have been able to compile stunning, rare and historical photographs of B.K.S. Iyengar throughout his lifespan.  This is the first page which takes a look back at his life and yoga during the 1950s.  The subsequent decades can be found at the following pages:

 

 

1950s  ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades

In 1952, Iyengar befriended the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin gave him the break that transformed Iyengar from a comparatively obscure Indian yoga teacher into an international guru.

Because Iyengar had taught the famous philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, he was asked to go to Bombay to meet Menuhin, who was known to be interested in yoga. Menuhin said he was very tired and could spare only five minutes. Iyengar told him to lie down in Savasana (lying on his back),and he fell asleep. After one hour, Menuhin woke refreshed and spent another two hours with Iyengar. Menuhin came to believe that practising yoga improved his playing, and in 1954 invited Iyengar to Switzerland.

At the end of that visit, he presented his yoga teacher with a watch on the back of which was inscribed, “To my best violin teacher, BKS Iyengar“. From then on Iyengar visited the west regularly, and schools teaching his system of yoga sprang up all over the world.

Iyengar made his first visit to the United States in 1956, when he taught in Ann Arbor,Michigan and gave several lecture-demonstrations.

1940s, BKS Iyengar, Yehudi, Menuhin, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

1940s, BKS Iyengar, Yehudi, Menuhin, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

1940s, BKS Iyengar, Yehudi, Menuhin, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa1940s, BKS Iyengar, Yehudi, Menuhin, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

B.K.S Iyengar teaching yoga to Yehudi Menuhin

 

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Vanda Scaravelli, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Vanda Scaravelli, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Vanda Scaravelli, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

B.K.S. practicing yoga with yoga teacher Vanda Scaravelli

 

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

1952, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, Paris, France, Eiffel Tower, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa1952, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, Paris, France, Eiffel Tower, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa1985, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, photo, rare, vintage, historical, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, demonstration, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa, India

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, demonstration, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa, India

1950s, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa1956, BKS Iyengar, Yoga, image, demonstration, photo, decade, asana, pose, class, teaching, guru, institute, circa, India

circa 1950s B.K.S Iyengar demonstrating, teaching yoga and in yoga poses at various locations

 

 

 

Scaravelli Inspired Teacher Catherine Annis
07747 19 69 14
Chelsea, London, UK

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