Rothman is managing editor at TIME. B.K.S. Iyengar teaches an Iyengar Intennsive class to 800 students at The 10th Annual Yoga Journal Colorado Conference in Estes Park on Sept. 28, 2005. B.K.S.

In contemporary yoga classes, teachers often speak of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras,” a philosophical text compiled around two thousand years ago, as the wellspring of the practice. This requires an ...

The 95-Year-Old introduced one of the most popular practices in the West. B.K.S. Iyengar gives a yoga demonstration to tennis players at a pre-Wimbledon party in a London suburb in June, 1960.

Before he became one of the West’s most influential teachers of yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar was a frail baby in a poor family in India. Born in 1918 during a worldwide flu epidemic, he survived infancy only ...

LUCKY SEVERSON, guest host: One of the numerous ways that people in this country try to get fit these days is through the practice of yoga. There are many different forms of this discipline, but the ...

The diseases of the developing world took a toll on Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (B.K.S) Iyengar. As a boy, he was physically weakened from typhoid, tuberculosis and malaria. Then his ...

Indian yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, who helped popularize yoga around the world and wrote 14 books on the subject, died Aug. 20 at 95. Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar’s death was reported on his ...

B.K.S. Iyengar, the Indian yoga guru who helped popularize yoga in the United States, died Wednesday morning at the age of 95 in a hospital in Pune, India. I am deeply saddened to know about ...

Yoga teacher Petra Winkler-Hirter credits yoga with teaching her to live in the present moment – and to accept her mortality. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, and discovering it had spread to her ...

Actor Mallika Sherawat has revealed the secret of her toned and fit body at 48 – that she keeps active by doing Iyengar yoga. Recently on Instagram, Mallika gave a glimpse of her yoga moves – and she ...