Lilias, Yoga and You
Genre	Exercise
Created by	Lilias Folan
Presented by	Lilias Folan
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	500[1]
Production
Production company	WCET Cincinnati
Original release
Network	PBS
Release	October 5, 1970 (1970-10-05) – 1999 (1999)
Related
Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age

Lilias, Yoga and You (later shortened toLilias!) is aPBS television show hosted byLilias Folan, aCincinnati, Ohio-based practitioner ofyoga as exercise. The show first aired on October 5, 1970 on CincinnatiPBS member stationWCET and three years later was carried on PBS across theUnited States, where it ran until 1999.^[2]

Lilias Folan (born 1936) began to practiceyoga as exercise in 1964,^[3] and was soon teaching at the YWCA inStamford, Connecticut.^[4] She studiedasanas under the yoga mastersT. K. V. Desikachar,B. K. S. Iyengar, andAngela Farmer, and gained wider knowledge ofyoga under theSivananda Yoga mastersSwami Vishnudevananda andSwami Satchidananda. She joined the Connecticutashram of theDivine Life Society led bySwami Chidananda. In the 1980s she metSwami Muktananda, creator ofSiddha Yoga, who told her to teachmeditation. Through her show she became known to Americans as the "First Lady of Yoga".^[3][5] She is married with two sons and seven grandchildren.^[3]

WCET premieredLilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age in March 2006, highlighting Folan's career and exploring the impact yoga has on the mind, body and spirit.^[2]

Folan has published four books:Lilias, Yoga and You (1972),Lilias, Yoga and Your Life (1981),Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age (2005), andLilias! Yoga: Your Guide to Enhancing Body, Mind, and Spirit in Midlife and Beyond (November 1, 2011)^[6][7]

Several VHS and DVD recordings of her yoga routines have been released, plus an audio-only book,Lilias Yoga Complete (1987),^[8] and one meditation CD,The Inner Smile (1998).^[9]

The music playing during the show's opening credits was "The Valley of the Bells" fromMaurice Ravel'sMiroirs.^{[citation needed]}

• Folan (surname)

• Gates, Janice (2006).Yogini: Women Visionaries of the Yoga World. Mandala.ISBN 978-1932771886.
• Schneider, Carrie (2003).American Yoga | The paths and practices of America's greatest yoga masters. Barnes & Noble.ISBN 978-0760745588.

• Lilias! Yoga and You atIMDb
• LILIAS FOLAN: First Lady of Yoga Cincinnati Fifty Plus! August 2003 By Kirstin Taylor
• Lilias Yoga at theWayback Machine (archived January 24, 2017)

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