Lilias, Yoga and You
Lilias, Yoga and You is a PBS television show hosted by Lilias Folan, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based practitioner of yoga as exercise. The show first aired on October 5, 1970 on Cincinnati PBS member station WCET and three years later was carried on PBS across the United States, where it ran until 1999.
Yoga presenter
Lilias Folan began to practice yoga as exercise in 1964, and was soon teaching at the YWCA in Stamford, Connecticut. She studied asanas under the yoga masters T. K. V. Desikachar, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Angela Farmer, and gained wider knowledge of yoga under the Sivananda Yoga masters Swami Vishnudevananda and Swami Satchidananda. She joined the Connecticut ashram of the Divine Life Society led by Swami Chidananda. In the 1980s she met Swami Muktananda, creator of Siddha Yoga, who told her to teach meditation. Through her show she became known to Americans as the "First Lady of Yoga". She is married with two sons and seven grandchildren.''Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age''
WCET premiered Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age in March 2006, highlighting Folan's career and exploring the impact yoga has on the mind, body and spirit.Books and other media
Folan has published four books: Lilias, Yoga and You, Lilias, Yoga and Your Life, Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age, and Lilias! Yoga: Your Guide to Enhancing Body, Mind, and Spirit in Midlife and BeyondSeveral VHS and DVD recordings of her yoga routines have been released, plus an audio-only book, Lilias Yoga Complete, and one meditation CD, The Inner Smile.