SILVIA PRESCOTT 1922-2016
4th November 2016
We are very sad to announce the death of Silvia Prescott, who passed away at home peacefully in her sleep on 3rd November 2016. Silvia first met Guruji in 1971 and was one of the first Iyengar teachers in the UK. She first visited Pune in 1977 and attended classes there most years, probably around 20 times in all. She said that her trips to RIMIYI became part of who she was. In the article that Silvia wrote for The Guardian in 2014 following Guruji’s death, she recounts how , during an early visit to the UK, someone asked Guruji, “Why do you practise yoga?” He thought for a few moments and then said: “Because I want to make a good death.”
