December 14: B.K.S. Iyengar was born on this date in 1918
Ninety-five years ago today — December 14, 1918 — Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (B.K.S.) "Guruji" Iyengar was born in Karnataka, India. As the author of more than a dozen books about yoga (including his seminal work Light on Yoga) Iyengar is credited with exporting the practice to the Western…
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