Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji -

To merely call Malladihalli Swamiji a "yoga guru" would be a gross understatement. He was a true , a polymath whose intellect knew no bounds. He was a prolific poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, and an Ayurvedacharya of immense repute. He authored an astonishing 66 works in the Kannada language, collectively published as the Bala-belaku-sahitya-male series. These included treatises on yoga like Suryanamaskara , Yogasana , and Pranayama , as well as comprehensive guides on Ayurveda such as Svayam-vaidya , Vanausadhagala Guna-Dharma , and Grha-Vaidya .

If you ask any fitness enthusiast in Karnataka about the "Sun Salutation," they will immediately recall . While the sequence of 12 postures existed in ancient yogic texts, it was Swamiji who popularized it as a complete cardiovascular and spiritual exercise for the masses. malladihalli sri raghavendra swamiji