Alan Goode and Peter Scott explore the life of B.K.S. Iyengar.

Guruji BKS Iyengar

This week, we were asked to write about our favourite asana and why we like it.

B. K. S. Iyengar sought to imbue his yoga practices with ancient authority, but his influential, Westernized version was actually a product of modernity.

John Schumacher muses about yoga's influence on his life.

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The crack of the gunshot was deafening. It took Shobhna Chellaram a few minutes to realise she had been shot by one of the band of armed robbers who had ambushed the car in which she and her family had been travelling along a deserted road in Lagos, Nigeria. The bullet shattered the base of her pelvis and ruptured her femoral arterial branches, lodging in her buttock.

Now that the world’s attention has focused more on Iyengar yoga since his passing, I would like to take this opportunity to clarify some misconceptions about this style that I have seen in va…