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The yoga teacher and the violinist

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How violinist Yehudi Menuhin and yoga teacher BKS Iyengar helped bring yoga to the West

How a friendship between the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the yoga teacher BKS Iyengar helped introduce the West to yoga.

To mark world yoga day, how a chance encounter between the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the yoga teacher, BKS Iyengar in 1952 led to a life-long friendship and played a crucial role in bringing the ancient Indian tradition of yoga to the West. Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to Iyengar teacher and friend of the Iyengar family, Rajvi Mehta, and listening back to archive of BKS Iyengar himself talking about that first meeting.

Picture: BKS Iyengar teaching yoga to Yehudi Menuhin, circa 1954 (Credit:Yehudi Menuhin Saanen Center)

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