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Shri Yogendra founded The Yoga Institute at Santacruz East in Mumbai in 1918. He was a pioneer in taking yoga to the West by founding probably the first ever yoga institute in the US, in Harriman State Park, New York, in 1919. A student of Paramahamsa Madhavdasaji, his emphasis was on “Householder Yoga,” with “Yoga for the modern world” one of the teachings. The Yoga Institute has published many books on yoga, four of which have been preserved in The Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Georgia, to be opened after 6000 years, in 8113.

The Southern Peninsula of India has been the abode of a great many yoga masters. Yogacharya Shri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989) was a great master who lived in Mysore in Karnataka. A traditionalist to the core, he felt that yoga must be adapted to the individual. He had three main disciples, K. Pattabhi Jois, T.K.V. Desikachar, and B.K.S. Iyengar, and it is interesting that each one, although of the same lineage (Krishnamacharya), has codified quite different systems of yoga: