Lilias, Yoga and You
Template:Infobox television Lilias, Yoga and You (later shortened to Lilias!) is a PBS television show hosted by Lilias Folan, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based practitioner of yoga as exercise. The show first aired on October 5, 1970 on Cincinnati PBS member station WCET and three years later was carried on PBS across the United States, where it ran until 1999.[1]
Yoga presenter
Lilias Folan (born 1936) began to practice yoga as exercise in 1964,Template:Sfn and was soon teaching at the YWCA in Stamford, Connecticut.[2] She studied asanas under the yoga masters T. K. V. Desikachar, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Angela Farmer, and gained wider knowledge of yoga under the Sivananda Yoga masters Swami Vishnudevananda and Swami Satchidananda. She joined the Connecticut ashram of the Divine Life Society led by Swami Chidananda. In the 1980s she met Swami Muktananda, creator of Siddha Yoga, who told her to teach meditation. Through her show she became known to Americans as the "First Lady of Yoga".Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn She is married with two sons and seven grandchildren.Template:Sfn
Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age
WCET premiered Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age in March 2006, highlighting Folan's career and exploring the impact yoga has on the mind, body and spirit.[1]
Books and other media
Folan has published four books: Lilias, Yoga and You (1972), Lilias, Yoga and Your Life (1981), Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age (2005), and Lilias! Yoga: Your Guide to Enhancing Body, Mind, and Spirit in Midlife and Beyond (November 1, 2011)[3][4]
Several VHS and DVD recordings of her yoga routines have been released, plus an audio-only book, Lilias Yoga Complete (1987),[5] and one meditation CD, The Inner Smile (1998).[6]
Music
The music playing during the show's opening credits was "The Valley of the Bells" from Maurice Ravel's Miroirs.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Commentary
See also
- Folan (surname)
References
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External links
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- LILIAS FOLAN: First Lady of Yoga Cincinnati Fifty Plus! August 2003 By Kirstin Taylor
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