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Iyengar To Head Yoga Association

December 11, 2008 by Ray Baskerville 

 Yogacharya BKS Iyengar has been appointed as the first president of the Indian Yoga Association (IYA). The association has fifteen of the nation’s top yoga centres. The first general body meeting of IYA chaired by BKS Iyengar will be held in Mumbai on January 5, 2009.

Yogacharya Iyengar, who will reach 90 years of age on December 14, said, “Yoga should be made compulsory in all our schools and colleges. I had begun teaching yoga to school and college students in Pune in 1937.”

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What an inspiration that man is.

  

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