BKS Iynegar dies in India: yoga master.

[jobin]

From BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-28862979

at age 95, which is better than average. He was doing his headstand till last year.

He offered the world a marvelous practice of self-discovery and personal mastery.

[Genericnic]

A big loss to the world yoga community.

David

p.s. the name in the headline is misspelled. It should be Iyengar.

[quidnunc]

On the other hand...

Early in the 20th century, the founders of modern yoga worked hard to remove the Tantric stain. They devised a sanitized discipline that played down the old eroticism for a new emphasis on health and fitness.

B. K. S. Iyengar, the author of “Light on Yoga,” published in 1965, exemplified the change. His book made no mention of Hatha’s Tantric roots and praised the discipline as a panacea that could cure nearly 100 ailments and diseases. And so modern practitioners have embraced a whitewashed simulacrum of Hatha.

[mamborobert]

He had a good run at that age........I didn't even know he lived in Chiang Mai.....Oh wait.......

[Tywais]

Searched the topic in the link and seems nothing about CM or Thailand in it and as such ...

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