BKS Iyengar, (December 19, 1918 to August 20, 2014) dedicated eighty years of his long life to study, practice, and teach yoga. He is the author of
the definitive encyclopedia of yoga, Light
on Yoga, as well as many other authoritative books on the subject. Mr. Iyengar
and his family have directly trained many excellent yoga teachers who have, in
turn, written their own authoritative texts and trained other excellent
teachers all over the world. In the footsteps of his guru, T. Krishnamacaria,
he has been a preeminent proponent of the revitalization and dissemination of
yoga in modern India