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RIP Gita Iyengar–Yoga Transformer

by Eve | Dec 17, 2018 | XTeaching, Yoga teaching

I always felt that Gita lived the life of a nun. She dressed in white and was steeped in the wisdom of spiritual texts. Gita devoted herself utterly and completely to the needs of her father and brother after her mother’s death. She worked tirelessly to ‘reveal’ yoga to the world, travelling and teaching, even as her health was failing.

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