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.

Dunn was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 2 June 1942 to Mary and William B. Palmer in a house designed for them by Frank Lloyd Wright.

[2] After graduating University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964, she married Roger Dunn in 1965 and moved to San Francisco, California in 1967.

[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".

[5] LA Yoga magazine called her "the star that lived among us"; it reported that Iyengar described her as "a clean and clear person".