B. K. S. Iyengar Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Children, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Saturday
BIRTHPLACE
Bellur, Kolar district
DIED AT AGE
95 Years 8 Months 6 Days
DEATHDATE
August 20, 2014
DEATHPLACE
Pune, India
CAUSE OF DEATH
Heart failure
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
SAGITTARIUS
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B. K. S. Iyengar Family Members
B. K. S. Iyengar Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Ramamani Iyengar (1943-1973)
Child(ren) of B. K. S. Iyengar and Ramamani Iyengar
Geeta (14 December, 1944) (Daughter)
Prashant (2 July, 1949) (Son)
Fame & Address
DEBUT
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Founder of the style of yoga as "Iyengar Yoga" (Yoga teachers in the world)
Official Website
bksiyengar.com
Education, Net Worth & More
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Career of B. K. S. Iyengar
After learning yoga from yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, he moved to Pune and started teaching Yoga there. His friend the violinist Yehudi Menuhin helped him to get international recognition.
Some Lesser Known Facts About B. K. S. Iyengar
- Did B. K. S. Iyengar takes alcohol? NA.
- Was B. K. S. Iyengar in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- B. K. S. Iyengar went through medical treatments to enhance his looks.
- Google honored him by creating a doodle on his 97th birthday.
- When he was a child, he was a patient of deadly diseases and had struggled with malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and general malnutrition.
- Time Magazine had named him in the 100 most influential people in the world in the year 2004.
- His brother-in-law Tirumalai Krishnamacharya who was also called the father of modern yoga invited him to Mysore to train him in Yoga to improve his health in 1934 as he often remains sick at the time. Tirumalai had provided key figures for the revival of "hatha yoga".
- Yehudi Menuhin who was an American violinist was the first to invite him to Switzerland to teach his Yoga techniques. After that, Iyengar started visiting west and hundreds of Iyengar yoga centers opened around the world.
- The 85-year-old Queen Elisabeth of Belgium to do Sirasana headstand.
- Many well-known celebrities like writer Aldous Huxley and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar were a great fan of him.
- He was fit even in his 90s. At the time he used to do asanas for 3 hours and pranayamas for an hour daily. (I think youth should take an inspiration from him!)
- Apart from teaching yoga, he had also written 14 books on the subject and various techniques to perform it in an easy way.
- He was a recipient of many prestigious awards like Padma Shri in 1991, the Padma Bhushan in 2002 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2014 for his contribution to Yoga globally.
- He was an animal lover and had donated Rs. 2 million to Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, Mysore. He also adopted a tiger and a cub in memory of his late wife.
- He also donated for the transformation of his ancestral village of Bellur. He opened a free school there which also supplies uniforms, books, and a hot lunch to the children of Bellur and the surrounding villages, a secondary school, and a college.
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shivanand
BKS Iyengar guru of Yoga had a great and evergreen personality.
Krishna
He is the admirer of many of the youngers in this generation who are having enthusiasm in Yoga and Pranayama. He is not only great but also very kind at heart, and he is down to earth person. Thanks for providing good information.