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 1970s. The subsequent decades can be found at the following pages:
- 1930s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 1940s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 1950s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 1960s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 1970s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 1980s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 1990s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 2000s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
- 2010s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades Photographs
1970s ~ B.K.S. Iyengar Through The Decades
In 1975, Iyengar opened the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, in memory of his late wife (who died in 1973).
Through multiple trips abroad and hosting international students in Pune from the 1970s on, he trained and influenced a generation of teachers who went on to teach a distinct, new kind of yoga throughout North America and Europe.
Unlike many influential gurus teaching in the West at the time, Iyengar neither emphasized esoteric spiritual practices nor asked students to become devotees or join a religion. He encouraged teachers to take their work seriously as a profession, worked to integrate yoga into secular educational institutions, and standardized syllabuses and teaching standards, which allowed his approach to yoga to spread and endure.
| 1970 BKS Iyengar teaching Mary Dunn during a yoga class | 1971 BKS Iyengar with Hatha Yoga teacher Malcolm Strutt |
1976 B.K.S. Iyengar in a series of yoga positions.
1977 B.K.S. Iyengar in a series of yoga positions
& teaching various yoga classes.
Scaravelli Inspired Teacher Catherine Annis
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Chelsea, London, UK
