Vintage Yoga
Author: jone Date: 14 November, Category: Appealing, Visits 3261
Actress Athene Seyler attempts to contort her body, in a scene from the show, [Skin Deep]. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). Circa 1928
James Hay-Kellie demonstrating yoga positions. (Photo by Tunbridge-Sedgwick Pictorial Press/Getty Images). Circa 1940
Fifteen year old Pamela Fawn performing yoga exercises at the Tunbridge Wells ballet school. At the school, run by Madame Nicolaeva Legat, students are taught yoga exercises as well as ordinary scholastic subjects and ballet. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features/Getty Images). May 1949
Contortionist Joe Clemendor impresses the audience at a Paris nightclub with his amazing feats of bodily distortion, made possible by his mastery of Yoga technique. (Photo by John Sadovy/BIPs/Getty Images). 21st June 1956
A child swings suspended in a sling attached to the hair of a yogi practitioner; they both appear to be enjoying the experience. The occasion is a yoga demonstration at Simla in northern India. There is a bed of nails by the yogis feet. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). Circa 1960
Hungarian yoga expert Laszlo Szabo demonstrates yoga positions for Budapest TV. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 9th March 1963
Kahti sits in the yoga position, wearing a knitted pant suit from the Autumn and Winter collection by C & A. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images). 8th September 1976
Two men practice yoga in Hyde Park. (Photo by Colin Davey/Evening Standard/Getty Images). 4th August 1977