Who Delivered Yoga to Your Door? The Lineages of Modern Yoga,Part II, Namaskar Magazine, October, 2019
By Eric Shaw In the July issue of Namaskar, I traced the lineages of Modern Postural Yoga (MPY) beginning with Swami Vivekananda’s work in the West beginning in 1893. Not only is he the first figure of MPY, he’s also the first figure to burn-out–to follow this...
Bikram’s Strange Truths, Medium.com, November, 2019
Two things inspired me to write about the controversial yoga superstar, Bikram Choudhury today: Three days ago, I found this historic pic of Bikram Choudhury (b. 1944) that I’d previously lost. (I collect archival yoga images.) Two days ago Netflix just came out with...
Yoga’s Roots: Origins of the Sun and Moon Salutes–and Warrior Pose, Blog October 2019
. As early as 1934, we get reports of the “Father of Modern Yoga,” Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, demonstrating new dynamic vinyasas of his own design which incorporated the movement flow pattern of Surya Namaskar (the Sun Salutation). His vinyasas added...
Sun Salute King, ThriveGlobal.com, August, 2019
Beloved in his day, Kola Venkatesh Iyer (1898 – 1980) helped usher posturework into the 20th century. He was an early adopter of Surya Namaskar
America’s First Yoga: The Fad of 1898, ThriveGlobal.com, August 2019,
This newspaper page is a time machine. It describes the first teaching of yoga postures in America–by the famous Swami Vivekananda. It also calls yoga a fad in New York–in 1898.