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served to popularise the practice of asanas more than any previous book for three reasons, namely the large number of asanas illustrated, the "clear no-nonsense descriptions, and the obvious refinement of the illustrations."
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as saying "when 'teachers refer to the correct way to do a posture, they're usually alluding to the alignment Mr. Iyengar instructs and expertly models in his book.'" She notes that while
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became his pupil in 1952 and then invited him to teach in Europe, which he did from the 1960s. Iyengar made yoga popular, first in India and then around the world.
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1759:Autobiography of a Yogi
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2298:Bihar School of Yoga
2034:Yoga in Modern India
1943:Lilias, Yoga and You
1746:Seetharaman Sundaram
1326:. London: Thorsons.
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2192:Swami Kuvalayananda
2006:Selvarajan Yesudian
879:The Washington Post
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470:prayer to Patanjali
342:Utthita Trikonasana
302:eight limbs of yoga
278:Utthita Trikonasana
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2991:Amaraugha Prabodha
2461:Beryl Bender Birch
2412:c. 1975
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2169:The Yoga Institute
2139:Breath of the Gods
1724:Genevieve Stebbins
1494:André Van Lysebeth
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1684:Early modern yoga
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