Yoga Center Iyengar De Strasbourg

Health is the complete harmony of body, mind and spirit, when it is released physical limitations and mental distractions, the doors that lead to the discovery of his mind open.

BKS Iyengar

BKS Iyengar lived in Pune, south west, where he founded his school, the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) He was a student of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya who remarked that it was not him for this art; This lack of recognition of his master BKS Iyengar became his own master and his first pupil; in the tradition of Hatha Yoga, BKS Iyengar insisted particularly on the practice of asanas - yoga postures, and that pranayama.

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundaraj Iyengar was born in 1918 into a poor family in the village of Bellur in Karnataka State, South. During the global flu epidemic of 1918, her mother was struggling with the disease and there was little hope he survives; he was born weak, with arms and skinny legs, a bulging belly and a big head; his health was deteriorated later by successive crises of malaria, typhoid and tuberculosis. When he was about nine years old, his father died; child puny and sickly without education, no one can help him back to health, he had to spend more time in bed than at school and his studies were affected by. His life took a positive turn in March 1934 when, at age 16, he was introduced to yoga in Mysore, led by Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who was his guru and his brother in law, married to his older sister; it taught him some basics of asana for better health and made germinate in BKS Iyengar keen interest in yoga.

He remained with his guru for two years; July 9, 1943, he married Ramamani and four months after their marriage and without any resources, he was sent to Pune to teach yoga to young people in college; he has five daughters: Geeta, Vanitha, Suchitha, Sunitha and Savitha, and a son Prashant.

BKS Iyengar was famous students such as J. Krishnamurti, Jayaprakash Narayan, Achyut Patwardhan, Aldous Huxley, Queen of Belgium and Yehudi Menuhin. The decisive meeting with the latter in 1952 will be followed by meetings with other personalities that will enable BKS Iyengar to start teaching in the West.

Having spent his entire life traveling and teaching, conducting thousands of demonstrations and conferences unabated in every continent up in 2011, China has trained thousands of teachers and inspired to go up yoga centers that disseminate his art in the world Entire.