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Bellur Krishnamachari Sundararaja Iyengar, the founder of 'Iyengar Yoga', died on 20 August 2014 in Pune at the age of 96. He established Iyengar Yoga and made it famous all over the world. In 2002, the Government of India awarded him Padma Bhushan in the field of literature and education and in 2014, he was awarded Padma Vibhushan. He was the most prominent personality who did remarkable work in the field of yoga education in Europe.
Born on 14 December 1918 in a poor family in Vellore, Iyengar was the world's longest-living yoga guru. Yoga Guru Iyengar's journey to becoming a yoga guru began when he was 16 years old and he used to practice difficult yoga even at the age of 90. In the late 1950s, he taught Shirshasana to the Queen Mother of Belgium, Queen Elizabeth, when he was over eighty. Even at the age of 90, Iyengar used to practice asanas for 3 hours a day and pranayama every hour. He could do more than 200 classical yoga asanas and 14 types of pranayama. He had designed special yoga postures for the handicapped.
He went to 78 countries and taught yoga to the people there. 20 thousand certified yoga teachers across the world consider him their guru. 200 Iyengar Yoga institutes are still operating across the world. He also wrote many books including 'Light of Yoga', 'Light of Pranayama', Light on Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
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demise
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