Yoga Memories
This advert appeared in a regional Birmingham newspaper in 1961 (9th July) and could be the first time the term “yoga studio” was used to describe a UK centre for the practice of yoga. The city-centre studio on what was Suffolk Street, was run by Yogini Sunita, a popular Birmingham-based yoga teacher at the time. The […]
Over the past couple of years, I’ve become fascinated by the appearance of yoga in newspaper and magazine comic strips/cartoons. There’s an ever-growing folder on my phone containing examples of comic characters becoming interested in yoga or yoga being used as a punchline. I don’t yet know what I’ll end up doing with these images […]