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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Seetharaman Sundaram</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Seetharaman_Sundaram_in_Halasana_(Plough_Pose)_1928.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/Seetharaman_Sundaram_in_Halasana_%28Plough_Pose%29_1928.jpg/220px-Seetharaman_Sundaram_in_Halasana_%28Plough_Pose%29_1928.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/Seetharaman_Sundaram_in_Halasana_%28Plough_Pose%29_1928.jpg/330px-Seetharaman_Sundaram_in_Halasana_%28Plough_Pose%29_1928.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Seetharaman_Sundaram_in_Halasana_%28Plough_Pose%29_1928.jpg 2x" data-file-width="395" data-file-height="250" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">In <a href="/wiki/Halasana" title="Halasana">Halasana</a>, Plough Pose, 1928</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">25 February 1901</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">26 December 1994<span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="dtend dday deathdate">1994-12-27</span>)</span> (aged&#160;93)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Indian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Lawyer, <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">Yogacharya</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known&#160;for</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Yogic Physical Culture</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Seetharaman Sundaram</b> (25 February 1901–26 December 1994<sup id="cite_ref-School_of_Yoga_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-School_of_Yoga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) was a lawyer and pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise" title="Yoga as exercise">yoga as exercise</a>, often known as <b>Yogacharya Sundaram</b>, and the first person to publish a handbook of yoga <a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asanas</a> in English, his 1928 <i><b>Yogic Physical Culture</b></i>. This was also the first yoga book to be illustrated with photographs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016152–178_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016152–178-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He travelled India with the bodybuilder <a href="/wiki/K._V._Iyer" title="K. V. Iyer">K. V. Iyer</a>, helping to popularise the new blend of <a href="/wiki/Hatha_yoga" title="Hatha yoga">hatha yoga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Physical_culture" title="Physical culture">physical culture</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seetharaman_Sundaram&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Seetharaman Sundaram was born in <a href="/wiki/Mathurai" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathurai">Mathurai</a>, Tamil Nadu in a <a href="/wiki/Brahmin" title="Brahmin">Brahmin</a> family.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016153_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016153-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He trained as a lawyer and worked in law throughout his career.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016154–155_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016154–155-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016177–178_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016177–178-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He ran the Yogic School of Physical Culture (also called the Sri Sundara Yoga Shala<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016177_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016177-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) in <a href="/wiki/Bangalore" title="Bangalore">Bangalore</a> in the 1930s, and travelled around India with the bodybuilder <a href="/wiki/K._V._Iyer" title="K. V. Iyer">K. V. Iyer</a> doing lecture/demonstrations, Iyer on muscles, Sundaram on yoga.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESingleton2010126_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESingleton2010126-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His legal colleagues did not know that he was revered as a yoga guru; in 1949, a retired <a href="/wiki/High_court_judge" class="mw-redirect" title="High court judge">high court judge</a> was astonished to see Sundaram being seen off at Madras's Central Railway Station by a crowd of wealthy and powerful people, prostrating before the garlanded figure of the man he knew as a lawyer.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016177–178_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016177–178-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Yogic_Physical_Culture"><i>Yogic Physical Culture</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seetharaman_Sundaram&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Yogic Physical Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1928 he published <i>Yogic Physical Culture</i>, describing a modernised <a href="/wiki/Hatha_yoga" title="Hatha yoga">hatha yoga</a> reworked as a combination of gymnastics, <a href="/wiki/Bodybuilding" title="Bodybuilding">bodybuilding</a>, and hygiene, illustrated with photographs. It explicitly references contemporary Western <a href="/wiki/Physical_culture" title="Physical culture">physical culture</a> as well as traditional Indian philosophy; and it goes along with <a href="/wiki/Indian_nationalism" title="Indian nationalism">Indian nationalism</a> by stating that the "sons of India" will need to combine yoga <a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asanas</a> with bodybuilding to "obtain super-strength to make their <i>Mother</i> [India] an equal sister among Nations!"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESingleton2010126_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESingleton2010126-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The language of the book, with phrases like "Physical Culture Religion", also echoes the bodybuilder <a href="/wiki/Eugen_Sandow" title="Eugen Sandow">Eugen Sandow</a>'s idea of making the body holy through physical fitness. In Sundaram's view, argues the yoga scholar <a href="/wiki/Mark_Singleton_(yoga_researcher)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Singleton (yoga researcher)">Mark Singleton</a>, the "tinge of religion" (Sundaram's phrase) makes yoga different from and superior to the purely material Western forms of exercise.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESingleton2010127_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESingleton2010127-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The book describes just 13 asanas: the eleven<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> covered by <a href="/wiki/Kuvalayananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuvalayananda">Kuvalayananda</a> in his 1926 book, plus <a href="/wiki/Trikonasana" title="Trikonasana">Trikonasana</a> and <a href="/wiki/Padahastasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Padahastasana">Padahastasana</a>. Sundaram stated that these provided a complete workout for "an average man of health". Kuvalayananda also included in his selection from hatha yoga's techniques one <a href="/wiki/Bandha_(yoga)" title="Bandha (yoga)">bandha</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Mudra" title="Mudra">mudra</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Shatkriya" class="mw-redirect" title="Shatkriya">kriya</a>, and two <a href="/wiki/Pranayama" title="Pranayama">pranayama</a> exercises. The format, essentially a <a href="/wiki/Field_guide" title="Field guide">field guide</a> with the name of each item, a description in text, and a photograph, was adopted by all later yoga manuals including <i><a href="/wiki/Light_on_Yoga" title="Light on Yoga">Light on Yoga</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016161_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016161-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It introduces a procedural innovation, too, creating stages in the adoption of each asana, something entirely missing from medieval texts like the <i><a href="/wiki/Hatha_Yoga_Pradipika" title="Hatha Yoga Pradipika">Hatha Yoga Pradipika</a></i>. The photographs are all of Sundaram himself, presented not as a new system like that of Sandow and the other bodybuilders like <a href="/wiki/Bernarr_Macfadden" title="Bernarr Macfadden">Bernarr Macfadden</a> (whom Sundaram references), but as of Sundaram's way of practising an age-old system. The effect was to demystify the asanas: they turned from difficult, strange, even repulsive spiritual practices into mere exercises.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016162–163_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016162–163-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Goldberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Elliott Goldberg">Elliott Goldberg</a>'s view, Sundaram's detailed instructions moved the practice of asanas from what had "in all likelihood" been perfunctory and haphazard towards the precision of <a href="/wiki/Modern_yoga" title="Modern yoga">modern yoga</a>, in which close attention is paid to the tensions in individual muscles. This approach, Goldberg argues, led to executing the asanas slowly and under control, observing one's body and making necessary adjustments accordingly to achieve correct alignment. All of this facilitated total absorption in the task of performing each asana properly, which in turn allowed the practitioner to go beyond pain or pleasure to the absolute.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016166–167_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoldberg2016166–167-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seetharaman_Sundaram&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dr. Asana Andiappan, founder of the Sundara Yoga and Natural Living Trust and the monthly <i>Asana International Yoga Journal</i>, studied yoga under Sundaram as a child.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seetharaman_Sundaram&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1928 <i>Yogic Physical Culture or the Secret of Happiness</i>. Bangalore: Brahmacharya Publishing.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seetharaman_Sundaram&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Yogasopana" class="mw-redirect" title="Yogasopana">Yogasopana</a></i>, an earlier yoga manual, written in Marathi and illustrated with halftone plates</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seetharaman_Sundaram&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Kuvalayananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuvalayananda">Kuvalayananda</a> described <a href="/wiki/Sirsasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sirsasana">Sirsasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sarvangasana" title="Sarvangasana">Sarvangasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matsyasana" title="Matsyasana">Matsyasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Halasana" title="Halasana">Halasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhujangasana" title="Bhujangasana">Bhujangasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salabhasana" title="Salabhasana">Salabhasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dhanurasana" title="Dhanurasana">Dhanurasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ardha_Matsyendrasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Ardha Matsyendrasana">Ardha Matsyendrasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paschimottanasana" title="Paschimottanasana">Paschimottanasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mayurasana" title="Mayurasana">Mayurasana</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Savasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Savasana">Savasana</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seetharaman_Sundaram&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-School_of_Yoga-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-School_of_Yoga_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output 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0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">Asanas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_asanas" title="List of asanas">List of asanas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standing_asanas" title="Standing asanas">Standing asanas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downward_Dog_Pose" title="Downward Dog Pose">Downward dog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotus_position" title="Lotus position">Lotus position</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meditative_postures" title="Meditative postures">Meditation seats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Salutation" title="Sun Salutation">Sun Salutation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tree_pose" title="Tree pose">Tree pose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virabhadrasana" title="Virabhadrasana">Warrior</a></li> <li>Accompaniments 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Alliance</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Yoga_for_therapeutic_purposes" class="mw-redirect" title="Yoga for therapeutic purposes">Therapy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_using_props" title="Yoga using props">Yoga using props</a></li> <li>1979&#160;<a href="/wiki/Accessible_yoga" title="Accessible yoga">Accessible yoga</a></li> <li>2002&#160;<a href="/wiki/Trauma-sensitive_yoga" title="Trauma-sensitive yoga">Trauma-sensitive yoga</a></li> <li>2007&#160;<a href="/wiki/Restorative_Yoga" title="Restorative Yoga">Restorative Yoga</a></li> <li>2008&#160;<a href="/wiki/Yoga_nidra" title="Yoga nidra">Yoga nidra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Miller_(psychologist)" title="Richard Miller (psychologist)">International Association of Yoga Therapists • Richard Miller</a></li> <li><a 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props">Props</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_brick" title="Yoga brick">Yoga brick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_mat" title="Yoga mat">Yoga mat</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Farmer" title="Angela Farmer">Angela Farmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugger_Mugger_Yoga_Products" title="Hugger Mugger Yoga Products">Hugger Mugger</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_pants" title="Yoga pants">Yoga pants</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lululemon_Athletica" title="Lululemon Athletica">Lululemon</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ardha-Chandrasana_Yoga-Asana_Nina-Mel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Early_modern_yoga" title="Early modern yoga">Early modern yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Vivekananda</a></li> <li>1896&#160;<i><a href="/wiki/Raja_Yoga_(book)" title="Raja Yoga (book)">Raja Yoga</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Bernard_(yogi)" title="Pierre Bernard (yogi)">Pierre Bernard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmonic_Gymnastics" class="mw-redirect" title="Harmonic Gymnastics">Harmonial gymnastics/yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marguerite_Agniel" title="Marguerite Agniel">Marguerite Agniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Bagot_Stack" title="Mary Bagot Stack">Mary Bagot Stack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genevieve_Stebbins" title="Genevieve Stebbins">Genevieve Stebbins</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physical_culture" title="Physical culture">Physical culture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishnu_Charan_Ghosh" title="Bishnu Charan 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Iyer</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Seetharaman Sundaram</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda" title="Paramahansa Yogananda">Paramahansa Yogananda</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi" title="Autobiography of a Yogi">Autobiography of a Yogi</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Aspects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hot_yoga" title="Hot yoga">Hot yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_of_yoga" title="Science of yoga">Science of yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse_by_yoga_gurus" title="Sexual abuse by yoga gurus">Sexual abuse by yoga gurus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Remski" title="Matthew Remski">Matthew Remski</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_and_cultural_appropriation" title="Yoga and cultural appropriation">Yoga and cultural appropriation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_advertising" title="Yoga in advertising">In advertising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_for_children" title="Yoga for children">For children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_for_women" title="Yoga for women">For women</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geeta_Iyengar" title="Geeta Iyengar">Geeta Iyengar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_tourism" title="Yoga tourism">Yoga tourism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_yoga_hybrids" title="List of yoga hybrids">Hybrids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1938&#160;<a href="/wiki/Naked_yoga" title="Naked yoga">Naked yoga</a></li> <li>1990&#160;<a href="/wiki/Mindful_Yoga" title="Mindful Yoga">Mindful Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Jude_Boccio" title="Frank Jude Boccio">Frank Jude Boccio</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Yoga_in_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Yoga in America">America</a> <ul><li>1961 <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hittleman" title="Richard Hittleman">Yoga for Health</a></i></li> <li>1970 <i><a href="/wiki/Lilias,_Yoga_and_You" title="Lilias, Yoga and You">Lilias, Yoga and You</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Britain" title="Yoga in Britain">Britain</a> <ul><li>1976 <a href="/wiki/Lyn_Marshall" title="Lyn Marshall">Lyn Marshall</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_France" title="Yoga in France">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Germany" title="Yoga in Germany">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postural_yoga_in_India" title="Postural yoga in India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Italy" title="Yoga in Italy">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Russia" title="Yoga in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_in_Sweden" title="Yoga in Sweden">Sweden</a> <ul><li>2015 <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Brathen" title="Rachel 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title="Enlighten Up!">Enlighten Up!</a></i></li> <li>2012&#160;<i><a href="/wiki/Breath_of_the_Gods" title="Breath of the Gods">Breath of the Gods</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_yoga_schools" title="List of yoga schools">Schools</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Modern_yoga_gurus" title="Modern yoga gurus">Gurus</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1918&#160;<a href="/wiki/The_Yoga_Institute" title="The Yoga Institute">The Yoga Institute</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shri_Yogendra" class="mw-redirect" title="Shri Yogendra">Shri Yogendra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hansa_Yogendra" title="Hansa Yogendra">Hansa Yogendra</a></li></ul></li> <li>1924&#160;<a href="/wiki/Kaivalyadhama_Health_and_Yoga_Research_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research 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