Over the next seven decades, Iyengar used his own body as a living laboratory to explore how different yoga postures - called asanas - can alleviate health problems. "Seeing that the general state of my health was so poor, my brother-in-law recommended a stiff regime of yoga practice to knock me into shape and strengthen me up to face life's trials and challenges as I approached adulthood." "A deep melancholy often overtook me, and at times I asked myself whether life was worth the trouble of living. "My poor health was matched, as it often is when one is sick, by my poor mood," he writes. In his latest book, Light on Life, he recounts how physical weaknesses led him to the ancient practice of yoga: Iyengar began life as a frail and sickly child - but now, at the ripe age of 87, the yoga master can still stand on his head and hold a conversation at the same time. He refined and perfected the technique of doing yoga poses that is most widely taught in the United States.
B.K.S Iyengar is considered the world's greatest living yoga master.
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