Barbara currie yoga biography

Five decades after she started teaching yoga, 78-year-old Barbara Currie is performing the same stretches and is still in demand.

From teaching classes on Thames Television’s Magpie series and appearing on breakfast TV, to releasing three best-selling books and opening her own yoga school, Barbara Currie has had a huge impact on yoga’s popularity over the years.

And she shows no signs of stopping.

“I was in my 20s, newly married with two children and had just moved to Scotland when I first discovered yoga. It was the 1960s and I had absolutely no idea what it was,” she remembers.

Yoga arrived in the UK in 1952 when Indian guru BKS Iyengar used yoga and meditation to help Yehudi Menuhin — one of the world’s finest violinists — overcome stage fright and anxiety.

Before that, yoga was almost unheard of. The Inner London Education Authority latched on to Iyengar’s methods in 1969 and Barbar