Who was BKS Iyengar and how did he spark the global craze for yoga?

December 14, 2015 09:12

Google is marking the birthday of BKS Iyengar, the guru who took yoga to the West, with one of its famous doodles.

Iyengar founded a style of yoga and taught Aldous Huxley, the author, and Yehudi Menuhin, the violinst.

Today Iyengar yoga is taught in more than 70 countries and its founder is credited with doing more than anyone else to popularise the discipline, first in India and then in the rest of the world. Iyengar, whose full name is Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, died in 2014 but Monday would have been his 97th birthday.

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