International Yoga Day 2022: The importance of yoga increased to keep oneself healthy and fit during the Corona period. People at home were closed during the lockdown. To keep himself healthy, he got up early and started doing yoga and exercise. Such a routine was adopted outside India and also in foreign countries. The need for yoga was felt in foreign countries. The spread of yoga abroad is due to the celebration of International Yoga Day in the year 2015. India is called Yoga Guru. Yoga is a part of India's culture, which spread to foreign countries and is being followed as a trend all over the world today. International Yoga Day is celebrated every year on the 21st of June. But the work of taking yoga to the international level and getting recognition was done by the yoga gurus of India. Let's know about the yoga guru of India, through whose efforts yoga reached abroad.

Yoga Guru BKS Iyengar



Yoga Guru BKS Iyengar - Photo : Facebook

Yoga guru BKS Iyengar spread yoga to foreign countries. He had opened a yoga school in the name of Iyengar Yoga, through which he spread yoga around the world. He taught yoga to foreign students. Awareness about the benefits of yoga. Iyengar also wrote a book on yoga, named 'Light on Yoga'. It was BKS Iyengar who realized the need for yoga mats for yoga and first used rubber mats as yoga mats for his foreign yoga students.
Dhirendra Brahmachari



Dhirendra Brahmachari - Photo: Facebook

Yoga guru Dhirendra Brahmachari is famous as the yoga guru of Indira Gandhi. He used to propagate yoga in India through Doordarshan. He also made efforts to promote yoga in many schools of Delhi and started yoga ashrams. Dhirendra Brahmachari has an ashram in Jammu. He has written several books on Yoga in English and Hindi.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya



Tirumalai Krishnamacharya - Photo : facebook/chandrasekhar.kota.3

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya is credited with reviving hatha yoga and vinyasa. Yoga guru Tirumalai Krishnamacharya is the father of modern yoga. He also had knowledge of Ayurveda and used to treat those who came to him for treatment, through yoga with Ayurveda.
Paramahansa Yogananda


Paramahansa Yogananda - Photo : Facebook

India's yoga guru Paramahansa Yogananda is considered the first and main master of yoga. Paramahansa Yogananda made the people of the West aware of meditation and Kriya Yoga. He spent most of his time in America and promoted yoga abroad. Paramahansa Yogananda also propagated yoga through his book 'Autobiography of a Yogi'.
Krishna Pattabhi Jois


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Krishna Pattabhi Jois

A big and famous name in the list of yoga gurus also comes from Krishna Pattabhi Jois. He developed the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga style. Yoga guru, Krishna Pattabhi Jois's followers include Sting, Madonna, and Gwyneth Paltrow among many others.