Mary Dunn (yoga)
Mary Louise Palmer Dunn (2 June 1942 – 4 September 2008) was an American instructor in Iyengar Yoga, and a founding member of its institutes in America. She was seen as a teacher's teacher within the tradition.
Life and career
Dunn was born in
Dunn began learning under Iyengar in 1974, eventually becoming a founding director of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and a co-founder of three Iyengar Yoga Institutes in America, namely San Francisco, New York, and San Diego.[2][1][3]
Jenny Snick, in Yoga Journal in 1983, wrote that Dunn looked like a woman living to her potential, describing her body as strong, compact, and graceful, with evident flexibility in every movement, filling the silence of the yoga studio with "her warmth and liveliness".[4]
Holly Hammond, writing in Yoga Journal, described Dunn as "one of the earliest American Iyengar Yoga teachers", one considered as a "teacher's teacher" because she trained many other Iyengar Yoga instructors.[5] LA Yoga magazine called her "the star that lived among us"; it reported that Iyengar described her as "a clean and clear person".[6]
Dunn died of
References
- ^ a b c d Schneider 2003, pp. 50–59.
- ^ a b c d e Sulcas 2008.
- ^ IYA 2007.
- ^ Snick 1983.
- ^ Hammond 2017.
- ^ Walford 2008.
Sources
- Hammond, Holly (5 April 2017) [2007]. "Meet the Innovators: Mary Dunn". Yoga Journal.
- IYA (2007). "Mary Dunn profile". Iyengar Yoga Association. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008.
- Schneider, Carrie (2003). American Yoga : The paths and practices of America's greatest yoga masters. Barnes & Noble. ISBN 978-0760745588.
- Snick, Jenny (September 1983). "The Teaching of Mary Dunn". ISSN 0191-0965.
- Sulcas, Roslyn (9 September 2008). "Mary Dunn, Yoga Instructor, Is Dead at 66". The New York Times.
- Walford, Lisa (27 December 2008). "In Memorium: Mary Dunn, In Gratitude".
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