The greatest teacher in the yoga world visited China and gave lectures overseas for the last time

Iyengar attended the first China-India Yoga Summit to teach personal courses

Master B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's greatest teacher in yoga and body, mind, is about to visit China to participate in the China-India Yoga Summit to be held in Guangzhou in June this year. For the entire China yoga industry, this is an unprecedented event and the most shocking major gathering. This is the first visit to China by the 93-year-old Master Iyengar and the last stop of his global teaching. After this summit, he will announce his retirement.

It is reported that Iyengar came to China to participate in this China-India Yoga Summit at the invitation of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health. China and India issued a joint communiqué in New Delhi on December 16, 2010, declaring 2011 the "Year of China-India Exchanges." In view of the increasingly prominent importance of yoga and exercise culture in non-governmental cultural exchanges between China and India, in order to promote cultural exchanges between China and India and enhance the friendship between the two peoples, Nanfang Weekend News and 21CN website co-sponsored the "China-India Thought Summit" series of forums One-the "China-India Yoga Summit" will be held in Guangzhou from June 16 to 19, 2011. At that time, masters from physical and mental training cultural systems such as China martial arts and Indian yoga will hold a series of dialogues and exchanges at such a high-end level for the first time.

This will be an unprecedented dialogue between civilizations between the two ancient civilizations and will surely become a good story in the history of cultural exchanges between the two countries.

Masters of body and soul from India and the three places attended the grand event

At this summit, the famous Indian philosopher Huang Xinchuan will talk about the spread of yoga in ancient China and its influence on China culture; Master Shideli, the president of Shaolin Dharma House, will also attend the grand event to jointly discuss the similarities and differences between traditional sports cultures between China and India, and make deeper efforts and more far-reaching contributions to cultural exchanges between the two countries.

The entire summit series of activities will last for four days. The first day was the summit, which held a summit dialogue on the body, soul and culture of the two countries. The second, third and fourth days will be yoga training courses led by Master Iyengar. Master Iyengar will lead his granddaughter and top ten disciples, who are also internationally renowned yoga instructors. In addition to delivering a special speech at the summit, he will also conduct guidance and improvement training for the group of professional yoga instructors three days after the summit. At that time, not only domestic groups will participate, but also professional yoga groups from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and the international community will come here.

In the evenings and in breaks between the four days, there will also be lectures and sharing by multiple physical and spiritual teachers from India, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places. Among them, very much worth looking forward to is Ms. Rujuta from India, known as the godmother of Bollywood. She will give lectures on Ayurveda and modern nutritional science, introducing the effects of natural comfort techniques to achieve physical and mental improvement and rapid fitness and weight loss. This is a model for ancient Indian medicine to become a modern lifestyle.

The summit also set up a "Body and Soul Culture Exhibition" outside the venue where Master Iyengar taught courses to showcase the incredible Indian tourism culture, the introduction of Master Iyengar's life and the series of themes of a review of 30 years of yoga in China, as well as yoga related business exhibitors. Guests will gather and stars will gather. Yoga operators and practitioners from home and abroad will flock to the city. Thousands of operators from related industries such as health care, sportswear, and tourism consulting will gather together to discuss the mysteries of yoga philosophy and discuss the ways of industry management.

"I am very pleased that yoga has become a cultural bridge between China and India."

As India's "national quintessence", yoga's status in India is similar to China's martial arts. There are many categories. Although it has also created many yoga masters with deep attainments, among many Indian yoga masters, Iyengar is regarded as the world's greatest yoga instructor and the most popular one. He was the first yoga master to leave India in the 1950s to teach yoga in the West. Before him, yoga was remembered by most people in the world as a mysterious ascetic retreat in the jungles and snowy mountains of India. In 1966, after his book "Light of Yoga" was published, it became the "Bible" for yoga pose practice and was translated into 18 languages and published around the world. In 2003, the word "Iyengar" was officially included in the Oxford English Dictionary. His original Iyengar Yoga, as a unique hatha yoga system, has a profound influence on the entire modern yoga world and even wider fields.

In Iyengar's view, yoga is a method that allows people to concentrate their minds through meditation and physical exercise, constrain and guide them correctly, so as to realize the integration of individuals and the spirit of all things in the universe and ultimately achieve self-liberation. During the teaching process, Iyengar is good at using figurative metaphors, allowing many beginners to quickly break through practice obstacles and experience the mystery of yoga. He once said: "If you take care of the roots, the flowers will naturally bloom and exude fragrance. If you take care of your body, your mind and soul will naturally grow and improve."

Not long ago, Iyengar said in an open letter to China yoga enthusiasts: "I am very happy to see that so many China people are practicing yoga... Today's yoga has become one of the cultural bridges between China and India, which makes me feel very pleased."

For more detailed information about the 2011 "First China-India Yoga Summit", please visit the official website: www.yogasummit.org (Editor in charge: Chen Shaopeng)