Results for Modern Yoga

Swami Vivekananda

His 1893 speech during the Parliament of Religions in Chicago is considered by historians as the 'zero' moment of Modern Yoga. Let’s find out why.

Yoga Guru and ayurvedic healer

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya is one of the key representative of Modern Yoga. Yoga healer and Ayurvedic scholar, he leaded in Mysore one of the first public and most influential Yoga Shalas, contributing to the spread of Hatha Yoga all over the world.

B.K.S. Iyengar: props, alignment and embodied spirituality

Author of the best-seller 'Light on Yoga' (1966), B.K.S Iyengar's tradition is mostly known for alignment, precision and the use of props (bricks, belts, blankets, bolsters, etc.). Scholars, however, talk about his method as 'embodied spirituality' and consider it a cornerstone of modern postural yoga.