Yoga in Britain

For the 2019 book by Suzanne Newcombe, see Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis.

The British artist Billy Childish in the yoga pose Ardha Padmasana in 2003; he is with other Medway Poets.

Yoga in Britain is the practice of yoga, including modern yoga as exercise, in Britain. Yoga, consisting mainly of postures (asanas), arrived in Britain early in the 20th century, though the first classes that contained asanas were described as exercise systems for women rather than yoga. Classes called yoga, again mainly for women, began in the 1960s. Yoga grew further with the help of television programmes and the arrival of major brands including Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga (vinyasa) yoga.

Before the 20th century, yoga was known only from the reports of travellers to India, which described deceptive vagabonds pretending to be pious. Among the first to publicise yoga in Britain in the early 1900s was the occultist Aleister Crowley, who helped to link yoga with magic in the public mind. In the 1930s, instructors such as Mary Bagot Stack taught postures similar to several modern asanas to women in Britain between the world wars, but these were not then described as yoga. At the same time, magazines such as Health and Strength ran articles on yoga, without mentioning asanas. In 1948 Sir Paul Dukes presented the BBC's first yoga television programmes to a small audience.

Classes called yoga began in the 1960s, becoming popular especially among women. Yogini Sunita attracted a large following in Birmingham from 1960. The British Wheel of Yoga developed from the Birmingham Yoga Club, founded by Wilfred Clark; it provided classes in venues such as church halls, trained teachers, and accredited yoga teacher training programmes. The 1968 visit of the rock music group The Beatles to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India drove counter-cultural interest in yoga. ITV gained a television audience of 4 million with its 1971 series Yoga for Health.

Iyengar Yoga was the first of the major yoga brands to arrive, with classes taught from 1970, initially under the Inner London Education Authority. With the commercialisation of classes from the 1980s, more energetic styles such as Ashtanga yoga. became popular, and private studios largely replaced local authority classes. The Sports Council made the British Wheel of Yoga the governing body of yoga in Britain in the 1990s. In the 21st century, yoga became so widespread as to become an "unremarkable" part of daily life,[1] and many new types of yoga appeared, from aerial yoga to doga (yoga with dogs) and on paddleboards. Yoga in its modern form is being studied academically by the School of Oriental and African Studies.

## History

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Ascetics under a banyan tree, from Collections of Travels Through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, 1688

### Early travellers

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The yoga scholar Mark Singleton notes that early British travellers who visited India considered yoga practitioners to be unpleasant, vagrants at best and libertines at worst. John Ovington in his A Voyage to Suratt, In the Year, 1689[2] described them as "holy mendicants" who had a "sordid aspect";[a] he attributed their taking solemn vows to remain in strange postures all their lives as "Delusions of Satan".[4] Similarly, John Fryer in his 1698 A New Account of East-India and Persia[5] recorded a "Jougie" who had a gold ring in his "Virile Member" to keep him from sexual activity, and wrote of ascetics who held postures until their limbs withered; he called such people "Vagabonds" who pretended to be pious.[4]

### Before the Second World War

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Mary Bagot Stack in "Seal" posture (now Salabhasana, locust pose) in Building the Body Beautiful, the Bagot Stack Stretch-and-Swing System, 1931

Early in the 1900s, the occultist Aleister Crowley travelled to India, devoting himself to Rāja yoga at the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. He learnt some asanas and studied Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. He wrote that he had attained the spiritual state of dhyana, which he called the seventh stage of the path to enlightenment, interpreting Patanjali's eight limbs of yoga as a sequence.[6] In 1939, Crowley gave a series of lectures on yoga, under the "modest"[7] pseudonym of Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji,[b] which were published the same year under the title Eight Lectures on Yoga.[8] This work helped to link yoga in the mind of the British public with magic, yogis with fakirs, and tantra with "Western esoteric sexual practices".[9]

In the 1930s, Health and Strength magazine ran two kinds of article relating to yoga. The first spoke of "yoga" but without mentioning asanas; the second, which it did not call "yoga", for women, including postures such as those now called Trikonasana, Paschimottanasana, and Salabhasana.[10] In July 1935, the magazine featured Adonia Wallace demonstrating the "Exercises Which Gave Me Fame"[11] as "The Girl with the Perfect Figure",[11] with the poses now called Rajakapotasana, Urdhva Dhanurasana, Natarajasana, and Eka Pada Viparita Dandasana.[11] Similar postures were taught to the Women's League of Health and Beauty in Britain by Mary Bagot Stack in the period between the world wars with the "Bagot Stack Stretch-and-Swing System". Stack had travelled to India, and had learnt some yoga poses there.[12]

### 1945–1980

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Further information: Yoga for women

Yogini Sunita's charisma attracted a large female following in Birmingham in the 1960s.[13]

The BBC broadcast the first yoga television programmes in 1948 and 1949 to a small audience,[c] presented by the ex-MI6 agent Sir Paul Dukes, who had an interest in spirituality; he had visited Pierre Bernard's Country Club in Nyack, New York which taught hatha yoga. A still shows three women in Shirshasana (tripod headstand) on a circular stage.[15]

Classes in yoga as exercise started to appear across Britain in the 1960s, and asana sessions became a common option among adult education evening classes. For example, in Birmingham, a local newspaper editor, Wilfred Clark, gave a lecture on yoga to the Workers' Educational Association in 1961, meeting such an enthusiastic response that he proposed yoga classes to the local education authority, and founded in turn the Birmingham Yoga Club, the Midlands Yoga Association, and finally the British Wheel of Yoga in 1965. Yoga groups soon sprang up all over Britain.[16]

The yoga researcher Suzanne Newcombe states that yoga in Birmingham was largely inspired by a Brahmin woman from a devout Catholic family in Bombay, born as Bernadette Bocarro. She trained as a Franciscan nun but left the convent and then learnt "Pranayama Yoga" in Bombay, marrying another Indian Catholic, Roydon Cabral. In 1960 she moved to Birmingham, taught yoga to a few friends, and by 1961 presented herself in a sari as "Yogini Sunita", exciting curiosity by sitting on the floor. An interviewer described her at that time as "wearing a flame-coloured sari, sandals and long silver earrings with her dark hair swept back in a chignon."[13] She was a charismatic teacher, attracting many middle-class women with her calm, relaxed manner, her skill and air of authority when teaching relaxation, and her ability to combine bringing up a family with a busy schedule of teaching and writing.[13][17]

The modern yoga guru
B. K. S. Iyengar with yoga teacher Malcolm Strutt at Iyengar Centre House, London, 1971

Yoga reached London's evening classes in 1967. The Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) stated that classes in "Hatha Yoga (sic)" should not cover the philosophy of Yoga, favouring "Keep Fit" classes in asanas and "pranayamas (sic)" especially for people aged over 40, and expressing concern about the risk of "exhibitionism" and the lack of suitably qualified teachers. The ILEA's Peter McIntosh watched some classes taught by B. K. S. Iyengar, was impressed by his 1966 book Light on Yoga, and from 1970 ILEA-approved yoga teacher training was run by one of Iyengar's pupils, Silva Mehta. Since the ILEA had insisted that classes should be free of yoga philosophy, Iyengar was careful to encourage students to follow their own religious traditions, rather than trying to follow his own family's Visistadvaita, a qualified non-dualism within Hinduism.[18] The ILEA had considered the British Wheel of Yoga, but, Newcombe suggests, since the Wheel had argued that yoga was not a physical education topic, McIntosh doubted they would be able to provide good quality yoga as ILEA physical education.[19]

In 1968, the rock music group The Beatles led counter-cultural interest, travelling to India and practising Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his ashram at the "yoga capital of the world",[20] Rishikesh.[21] In Crosby, on Merseyside, Kailash Puri, a Sikh woman from Punjab, taught yoga, pranayama and relaxation in the wave of interest generated by The Beatles; her students Frank and Hazel Wills ran a yoga slot on the BBC lunchtime programme Pebble Mill at One starting in 1973.[17]

Yoga classes grew beyond those of local education authorities when ITV screened Yoga for Health from 1971, watched by an audience estimated at 4 million. Richard Hittleman was brought in from the United States for want of a suitable British presenter. The model and ballerina Lyn Marshall was chosen to demonstrate the poses under his instruction, on the grounds that "any reasonably fit person"[22] could benefit from yoga, even though, as Newcombe remarks, Marshall was, as a trained dancer, hardly average.[22] Marshall went on to publish a series of illustrated guides to yoga, including Wake Up to Yoga (1975) and Keep Up with Yoga (1976).[23] Newcombe estimates that the number of people, mainly middle-class women,[d] practising yoga in Britain rose from about 5,000 in 1967 to 50,000 in 1973 and 100,000 by 1979; most of their teachers were also women. With the rise of feminism and higher education for women, middle-class British women were starting to resent being housewives, and given their relative economic freedom, were ready to experiment with new lifestyles such as yoga. Newcombe speculates that their husbands may have found having their wives attending "course on traditionally feminine subjects like flower arranging or cooking ... less threatening and more respectable than employment outside the home."[25] The women saw evening classes as safe, interesting, and a good place to make friends with like-minded people. Further, women in Britain were accustomed to gendered physical education, dating back to Mary Bagot Stack before the Second World War.[26]

### 1980s onwards

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Further information: Yoga as exercise

Yoga camp, Oxford, 2016

Adult education funding was cut sharply in the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, and yoga moved from public to private classes.[27] In the 1990s, commercial yoga studios started to appear in city centres. At the same time, yoga was recognised as a valid sporting activity by the UK Sports Council; it recognised the British Wheel of Yoga as yoga's governing body, without giving it powers to enforce yoga teaching standards.[27] A more energetic style, Ashtanga (vinyasa) yoga, became popular in the new studios with their audience of young, ambitious and often male practitioners. The style, founded by K. Pattabhi Jois, made yoga into an aerobic exercise with continuous flowing movements, the asanas linked by vinyasa sequences based on Surya Namaskar, the salute to the sun.[27]

Iyengar visiting the newly-opened Iyengar Yoga Institute, Maida Vale, London, May 1984, with the institute's committee of yoga teachers. From left Mira Mehta, Genie Hammond, unknown, Peter Ballard, Iyengar, Silvia Prescott, and Silva Mehta.

The first Iyengar Yoga Institute (IYI) outside India was founded in Maida Vale, London, in 1983.[28] Silva Mehta and her children Shyam Mehta and Mira Mehta, both yoga teachers taught by Iyengar, helped to run the institute, initially largely unpaid.[29][30] The old IYI building was replaced in 1994, and the new one was officially opened by Iyengar in person in 1997. From the start, Iyengar personally assessed the quality of the teaching every year.[31]

Alongside the yoga brands, many teachers, for example in England, offer an unbranded "hatha yoga", often mainly to women, creating their own combinations of poses. These may be in flowing sequences (vinyasas), and new variants of poses are often created.[32][33][34] The gender imbalance has sometimes been marked; in Britain in the 1970s, women formed between 70 and 90 per cent of most yoga classes, as well as most of the yoga teachers.[25] This caused yoga to evolve as a female practice, taught by women to women.[35]

In 2013, the Brighton Yoga Festival was founded by Davy Jones and Mikaela Perera.[36][37] Since then it has run annually, with a day of classes in different styles of yoga and meditative practices, held in the Brighton area during the summer.[38]

By 2019, yoga had become "massively popular" in Britain,[17] to the extent that its practice was altogether "unremarkable";[1] some 500,000 people practise it regularly each week, and as many as 3 million have at least tried it.[39][40]

## Forms and purposes

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Further information: Yoga teacher training

In 1993, the Sports Council gave the British Wheel of Yoga the status of "National Governing Body" for yoga as a "sports activity", effectively taking control away from local authorities. The Wheel ran yoga teacher training programmes and accredited the programmes of other organisations.[41]

By the 21st century, yoga teaching in Britain had changed from mainly publicly funded (by local education authorities) to mainly private, whether in small local groups, advertised classes in venues such as church halls (often British Wheel of Yoga), organised groups like Iyengar Yoga, Ashtanga yoga and Bikram Yoga, or commercial studios providing many different styles of yoga.[27][40][42]

A 2019 project bringing yoga into schools has had "a profound impact" on Norfolk primary school children with special needs such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism.[43] The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended that employers should arrange lunchtime yoga classes to help reduce obesity.[44]

Yoga in Britain is practised in varied settings and in many hybrid forms, from ashrams to village halls to prisons; with dogs, paddleboards, and aerially; for children and for those with Parkinson's; to awaken Kundalini, and as Christian "PraiseMoves".[45] A hotel in the Lake District offers yoga with ring-tailed lemurs.[46]

## Research

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James Mallinson and colleagues at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London including Mark Singleton and Jason Birch introduce the 2015–2020 Hatha Yoga Project

Britain has pioneered the academic study of yoga: the School of Oriental and African Studies in London has created a Centre of Yoga Studies, hosting the Hatha Yoga Project which traced the history of physical yoga. The school teaches a master's degree in yoga and meditation.[47] Its researchers have included scholar practitioners such as Singleton and James Mallinson who do yoga themselves,[48] and Suzanne Newcombe, who has specifically investigated yoga in Britain in its period of rapid growth and acceptance from 1960 to 1980, as documented in her book Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis.[49]

## See also

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* Yoga in France
* Yoga in Germany
* Yoga in Italy
* Yoga in Russia
* Yoga in Sweden
* Yoga in the United States

## Notes

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1. ^ David Gordon White writes of "a variety of mendicant orders—variously called Yogis, Gosains, Fakirs, or Sanyasis by the British, who had difficulty distinguishing between them".[3]
2. ^ Crowley's pseudonym means "Great Spirit Teacher Respected Supreme Swan Respected [God] Shiva".
3. ^ At that time, only a small percentage of households in Britain had a television; but the programmes attracted only a minority of the available audience.[14]
4. ^ In British usage, the middle class is relatively comfortable, above the working class, well-educated with good jobs.[24]

## References

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1. ^ a b Newcombe 2019, p. x.
2. ^ Ovington, John (1696). A Voyage to Suratt, In the Year, 1689. London: Jacob Tomson.
3. ^ White & Magee 2019, p. 69.
4. ^ a b Singleton 2010, pp. 38–39.
5. ^ Fryer, John (1698). A New Account of East-India and Persia. London: Richard Chiswell.
6. ^ Booth 2000, pp. 144–147; Churton 2011, pp. 78–83; Kaczynski 2010, pp. 96–98; Singleton 2010, pp. 64–66; Sutin 2000, pp. 94–98.
7. ^ Singleton 2010, pp. 64–66.
8. ^ Wasserman 2007, p. 26.
9. ^ Newcombe 2019, pp. 24–27; Singleton 2010, pp. 64–66.
10. ^ Singleton 2010, pp. 157–159.
11. ^ a b c Singleton 2010, pp. 158–159.
12. ^ Singleton 2010, pp. 160–162.
13. ^ a b c Newcombe 2014, pp. 148–153.
14. ^ Newcombe 2019, pp. 179–184.
15. ^ Newcombe 2019, pp. 177–202.
16. ^ Newcombe 2007; Newcombe 2019, pp. 40–74.
17. ^ a b c Newcombe, Suzanne (20 June 2019). "How Yoga Conquered Britain: The Feminist Legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri". The Conversation. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
18. ^ Newcombe 2007; Newcombe 2019, pp. 99, 236–239.
19. ^ Newcombe 2019, p. 96.
20. ^ "Rishikesh's Identity as Yoga Capital to Be Maintained". The Tribune. 2 March 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
21. ^ Newcombe 2019, pp. 134–176.
22. ^ a b Newcombe 2019, pp. 188–194.
23. ^ "ti:yoga au:Lyn Marshall". WorldCat. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
24. ^ "Middle Class". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
25. ^ a b Newcombe 2007.
26. ^ Newcombe 2007; Newcombe 2019, pp. 109–133.
27. ^ a b c d Newcombe 2019, pp. 258–270.
28. ^ Goldberg 2016, p. 384.
29. ^ "Pranic Pathways and the Inner Journey with Mira Mehta". Yoga Loft. 3 February 2017. Archived from the original on 3 September 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
30. ^ "40 Years of Iyengar yoga in Maida Vale". Iyengar Yoga London. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
31. ^ Redfern, Helen (6 December 2017). "Stepping Inside the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Maida Vale". Yoga Matters. Archived from the original on 3 September 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
32. ^ Singleton 2010, p. 152.
33. ^ Cook, Jennifer (28 August 2007). "Find Your Match Among the Many Types of Yoga". Yoga Journal.
34. ^ Beirne, Geraldine (10 January 2014). "Yoga: A Beginner's Guide to the Different Styles". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
35. ^ Hodges 2007, p. 70.
36. ^ "BYF Trustees: Davy Jones - Chair". Brighton Yoga Foundation. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
37. ^ "Davy Jones". Yoga Campus. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
38. ^ "Brighton Yoga Festival 2025". Brighton Yoga Festival. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
39. ^ Newcombe 2019, p. 1.
40. ^ a b Newcombe, Suzanne (5 August 2019). "Yoga in Britain". Religion Media Centre.
41. ^ Newcombe 2019, pp. 260–261.
42. ^ "Bikram Yoga: The Story of How Yoga Got Hot". I Yoga London. 23 June 2016.
43. ^ "Yoga in Schools Has 'Profound Impact' on Behaviour". BBC News. 8 March 2019.
44. ^ Lyons, Izzy (6 June 2019). "Spinning and Yoga Classes Should Be Introduced by Employers During Lunchtime, NICE Says". The Daily Telegraph. London.
45. ^ Gowing 2019, especially pp. ix–x.
46. ^ "Lake District Hotel Launches Lemur Yoga Classes". BBC. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
47. ^ "Centre of Yoga Studies". SOAS. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
48. ^ Newcombe 2009.
49. ^ Newcombe, Suzanne. "Dr Suzanne Newcombe". Open University. Retrieved 17 March 2019.

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| Asanas|

* List of asanas
* Standing asanas
* Downward dog
* Lotus position
* Meditation seats
* Sun Salutation
* Tree pose
* Warrior
* Accompaniments
* Drishti
* Namaste
* Om
* Pranayama
* Ujjayi
* Vinyāsa
* Hasta Vinyasas

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Teacher training|

* Standards
* British Wheel of Yoga
* Paul Fox
* European Union of Yoga
* André Van Lysebeth
* Yoga Alliance

Therapy|

* Yoga using props
* 1979 Accessible yoga
* 2002 Trauma-sensitive yoga
* 2007 Restorative Yoga
* 2008 Yoga nidra
* International Association of Yoga Therapists • Richard Miller
* Janice Gates

Events|

* Competitive yoga
* International Day of Yoga
* Yoga Journal

Props|

* Yoga brick
* Yoga mat
* Angela Farmer
* Hugger Mugger
* Yoga pants
* Lululemon

History|

| Early|

* c. 18th century Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati
* 19th century Śrītattvanidhi
* Vivekananda
* 1896 Raja Yoga
* Pierre Bernard
* Harmonial gymnastics/yoga
* Marguerite Agniel
* Mary Bagot Stack
* Genevieve Stebbins
* Physical culture
* B. C. Ghosh
* K. V. Iyer
* Seetharaman Sundaram
* Paramahansa Yogananda
* Autobiography of a Yogi

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Aspects|

* Hot yoga
* Science of yoga
* Sexual abuse by yoga gurus
* Matthew Remski
* Yoga and cultural appropriation
* In advertising
* For children
* For women
* Geeta Iyengar
* Yoga tourism

Hybrids|

* 1938 Naked yoga
* 1990 Mindful Yoga
* Frank Jude Boccio
* Anne Cushman
* Janice Gates
* Jon Kabat-Zinn
* Cyndi Lee
* Phillip Moffitt
* 2003 Acroyoga
* Doga
* 2013 Paddleboard Yoga
* 2014 Aerial yoga
* Beer yoga

By country|

* America
* 1961 Yoga for Health
* 1970 Lilias, Yoga and You
* Britain
* 1976 Lyn Marshall
* France
* Germany
* India
* Italy
* Russia
* Sweden
* 2015 Rachel Brathen
* Switzerland
* 1941 Selvarajan Yesudian

Books|

* 1996 The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace
* 2004 Yoga in Modern India
* A History of Modern Yoga
* 2005 Positioning Yoga
* 2010 Yoga Body
* The Subtle Body
* 2012 The Science of Yoga
* 2015 Selling Yoga
* 2016 The Path of Modern Yoga
* 2017 Roots of Yoga
* 2019 Yoga in Britain
* 2020 The Story of Yoga

Films|

* 2006 Guru
* 2009 Enlighten Up!
* 2012 Breath of the Gods

Schools
(Gurus)|

* 1918 The Yoga Institute
* Shri Yogendra
* Hansa Yogendra
* 1924 Kaivalyadhama
* Swami Kuvalayananda
* 1934 Viniyoga
* Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
* Yoga Makaranda
* T. K. V. Desikachar
* A. G. Mohan
* Indra Devi
* Srivatsa Ramaswami
* Vanda Scaravelli
* 1934 Sivananda yoga
* Yoga Asanas
* Vishnudevananda Saraswati
* Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga
* c. 1948 Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
* K. Pattabhi Jois
* Mysore style
* Tim Miller
* Kino MacGregor
* Larry Schultz
* 1963 Bihar School of Yoga
* Satyananda Saraswati
* 1965 Ananda Yoga
* Kriyananda
* 1966 Integral Yoga
* Satchidananda Saraswati
* 1966 Kripalu Yoga
* Amrit Desai
* Stephen Cope
* 1971 Himalayan Institute
* Swami Rama
* 1973 Bikram Yoga
* Bikram Choudhury
* 1975 Iyengar Yoga
* B. K. S. Iyengar
* Light on Yoga
* Mira Mehta
* Yoga the Iyengar Way
* 1975 Dharma Mittra
* c. 1975 Yin Yoga
* Paulie Zink
* Paul Grilley
* Sarah Powers
* 1982 Forrest Yoga
* 1984 Jivamukti Yoga
* Sharon Gannon
* 1995 Power Yoga
* Beryl Bender Birch
* Bryan Kest
* 1997 Anusara Yoga
* John Friend
* 2006 Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga (Sadie Nardini)

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