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Mira Mehta
Mira Mehta is a yoga teacher in England. She is known for the "influential classic" 1990 book Yoga the Iyengar Way. She has been called "the most senior [Iyengar] Yoga teacher outside India, recognised as an authority in all its aspects". In 1991, she appeared on a set of Indian postage stamps in 1991. In 1993, she was included in the "Best of British Women 1993" for her work in alternative health.
Mira Mehta earned her B.A. degree in linguistics and anthropology at the University of London. She gained an M.Phil. degree in Sanskrit and classical Indian religion at the University of Oxford. She continued her studies of ancient yoga texts as a postgraduate under Krishna Arjunwadkar.
She learnt yoga directly from B. K. S. Iyengar from an early age, through "frequent visits" to his yoga institute in Pune. She had a scoliosis which she gradually overcame with yoga, becoming a full-time Iyengar Yoga teacher at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Maida Vale, London. She gained Iyengar's advanced yoga teaching certificate and has taught in different countries including Spain.
In 1999 Mehta founded "The Yogic Path", a yoga studio with classes of 20 students in West Hampstead, London. It teaches Iyengar Yoga and philosophy as well as therapy yoga and yoga for back pain. She has published a poetry collection, Cascade of Stars, and translations of Sanskrit verse.
Mehta has been called "the most senior [Iyengar] Yoga teacher outside India, recognised as an authority in all its aspects: asana, pranayama, philosophy and therapy."
She and her brother Shyam Mehta appeared on a set of 4 stamps issued by the Indian Department of Posts in 1991. She was depicted demonstrating Ustrasana (camel pose) on a 6.50 rupee stamp, and Trikonasana (triangle pose) on a 10 rupee stamp. The images, redrawn from photographs in the Mehtas' 1990 book Yoga the Iyengar Way, were described as "perfect postures".
In 1993, she was included in the "Best of British Women 1993" for her work in alternative health.
The yoga teacher Barry Chapple, writing in The Hindu in 2015, described Mehta as one of the "yoga greats".
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Mira Mehta
Mira Mehta is a yoga teacher in England. She is known for the "influential classic" 1990 book Yoga the Iyengar Way. She has been called "the most senior [Iyengar] Yoga teacher outside India, recognised as an authority in all its aspects". In 1991, she appeared on a set of Indian postage stamps in 1991. In 1993, she was included in the "Best of British Women 1993" for her work in alternative health.
Mira Mehta earned her B.A. degree in linguistics and anthropology at the University of London. She gained an M.Phil. degree in Sanskrit and classical Indian religion at the University of Oxford. She continued her studies of ancient yoga texts as a postgraduate under Krishna Arjunwadkar.
She learnt yoga directly from B. K. S. Iyengar from an early age, through "frequent visits" to his yoga institute in Pune. She had a scoliosis which she gradually overcame with yoga, becoming a full-time Iyengar Yoga teacher at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Maida Vale, London. She gained Iyengar's advanced yoga teaching certificate and has taught in different countries including Spain.
In 1999 Mehta founded "The Yogic Path", a yoga studio with classes of 20 students in West Hampstead, London. It teaches Iyengar Yoga and philosophy as well as therapy yoga and yoga for back pain. She has published a poetry collection, Cascade of Stars, and translations of Sanskrit verse.
Mehta has been called "the most senior [Iyengar] Yoga teacher outside India, recognised as an authority in all its aspects: asana, pranayama, philosophy and therapy."
She and her brother Shyam Mehta appeared on a set of 4 stamps issued by the Indian Department of Posts in 1991. She was depicted demonstrating Ustrasana (camel pose) on a 6.50 rupee stamp, and Trikonasana (triangle pose) on a 10 rupee stamp. The images, redrawn from photographs in the Mehtas' 1990 book Yoga the Iyengar Way, were described as "perfect postures".
In 1993, she was included in the "Best of British Women 1993" for her work in alternative health.
The yoga teacher Barry Chapple, writing in The Hindu in 2015, described Mehta as one of the "yoga greats".
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