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Iyengar & Krishnamacharya's Yoga in 1938

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Uploaded by on May 31, 2009

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya was 50 when this film was made and is arguably the most influential yogi in establishing what yoga has become today. His students include Pattabhi Jois the founder of Asthanga yoga, BKS Iyengar, Indra Devi, and his son Desikachar. Most of todays leading yogis have studied under one or more of Krishnamacharya students. Krishnamacharya was born in 1888 in a remote Indian village and lived to be over 100 years old until his death in 1989. He is known as not only as a most influential yoga teacher, but a scholar, and a healer. Krishnamacharya was known to be able to voluntarily stop his visible heart beat/ pulse for over two minutes, probably by drastically reducing venous return to the heart.

Try to follow this 48 minute series for your express lunch time yoga workout and see what it does to your heart rate.

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  • This is Krsihnamacharya, not Mr. Iyengar?

  • I believe Krsihnamacharya is in the last 90 seconds..

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  • Have you noticed how Iyengar's muscles are so relaxed and passive even in the most streneous and difficult poses? That's something you won't see in nowdays practionners, they can achieve all poses but the efforts they put into it always show in their bodies and strain in their faces. Iyengar is an exception to that. As they say...Many are called, you know but few are chosen. I believe that man was chosen and Yoga his vocation. I don't do Yoga and I'm not his disciple, this is only my view.

  • The "Never before, Never again" Practitioner... Teacher of the Millennium, who preached only what  he practiced...

  • The film begins with BKS, and then shifts to Krishnamacharya at 7mins 20sec.

  • Truly wonderful thank you for posting

  • Yeah, that is definitely BKS Iyengar in the beginning and you are right, he is simply amazing!

  • this is BKS in the begining, then Krisnamacharya with th white shorts - watch his breathing ... AMAZING !!

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