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Portrait of B. K. S. Iyengar
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Yoga Guru · Ācārya

B. K. S. Iyengar

Developed alignment- and prop-based method; author of Light on Yoga.

Period: 1918–2014
Associated with: Pune
Tradition: Iyengar Yoga
📿 Historically documentedDates and lineage below reflect scholarly consensus; confidence levels are shown for each link.Confidence: High

Lineage timeline (Paramparā)

The teacher-to-student transmission — oldest first, flowing down through the generations.

  1. guru disciple · confidence High

  2. B. K. S. IyengarThis page1918–2014
  3. Students who carried it forward

  4. Geeta S. Iyengar1944–2018

    guru disciple · confidence High

  5. guru disciple · confidence High

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