Early years
Learning from Guruji
Narayan Sir studied under B.K.S. Iyengar, Guruji, learning not only the postures but the precision, discipline and therapeutic use of the method.
The line of the teaching
Iyengar yoga was shaped by one teacher over a lifetime, and carried on by students who learnt at his side.
- Ancient India Sage Patanjali sets down the Yoga Sutras, with the eight limbs of yoga.
- 1918 B.K.S. Iyengar, Guruji, is born in Bellur, Karnataka.
- Aged 16 He is introduced to yoga by his teacher, Sri T. Krishnamacharya, and at 18 is sent to Pune to teach.
- 1966 Guruji's book Light on Yoga is published and carries the method across the world.
- 1975 The Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, named for his wife, is inaugurated.
- Decades Narayan Sir studies directly under Guruji, and goes on learning from him for decades.
- 1988 Narayan Sir begins teaching in Vijayanagar, Bengaluru.
- 2014 Guruji passes away. The teaching continues, hand to hand, through students like Narayan Sir.
Teaching since 1988
In 1988 he began teaching in Vijayanagar, Bengaluru. Over the years, students have come to him with stiffness, pain, stress and long-standing complaints, and many have stayed for years.
How he teaches
He speaks Kannada and Tamil, and the essence of the practice is grasped by practising beside him over months.
