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.

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 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.

Cary Au-Yeung suffered from anxiety and insomnia. A busy corporate executive in Hong Kong, she spent long hours at work and travelled a lot. When her father fell ill in 2016, her stress levels soared.

BKS Iyengar at his institute in Pune with a statue of his young self at the background. Photo: Namas Bhojani for SZ magazine With arms around the shoulders of his granddaughter Abhijata, B.K.S.

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 ...

The man widely credited with popularising yoga in the West has died. How did an Indian boy born into disease and poverty grow up to transform the way the world keeps fit? Right now, on exercise mats ...

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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 ...