GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to Noëlle Perez-Christiaens for permission to translate and adapt her material for this book:
“Noëlle’s India Journal”: Adapted from Un Mystique Hindou Ivre de Dieu: B.K.S. Iyengar by Noëlle Perez-Christiaens (Paris: Institut de Yoga B.K.S. Iyengar, copyright © 1976).
“Sparks of Divinity”: From Etincelles de Divinité (Sparks of Divinity), compiled by Noëlle Perez-Christiaens (Paris: Institut de Yoga B.K.S. Iyengar, copyright © 1976).
“The Early Life of B.K.S. Iyengar”: Adapted from Un Mystique Hindou Ivre de Dieu: B.K.S. Iyengar by Noëlle Perez-Christiaens (Paris: Institut de Yoga B.K.S. Iyengar, copyright © 1976).
We thank Steve Baczewski, for giving us permission to use his striking photograph of B. K. S. Iyengar on the cover. (This photograph originally appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal, July/August 1976.)