Mary Louise Palmer Dunn (2 June 1942 – 4 September 2008) was an American instructor inIyengar Yoga, and a founding member of its institutes in America. She was seen as a teacher's teacher within the tradition.
Dunn was born inAnn Arbor, Michigan on 2 June 1942 to Mary and William B. Palmer in a house designed for them byFrank Lloyd Wright.[2] After graduatingUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964, she married Roger Dunn in 1965 and moved toSan Francisco, California in 1967. Her mother was a student ofB. K. S. Iyengar and helped bring him to the United States in 1973.[2][1] She went to Pune each year to study directly under Iyengar.[2][1]
Dunn began learning under Iyengar in 1974, eventually becoming a founding director of theIyengar 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, inYoga 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 inYoga 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 ofperitoneal cancer inScarsdale, New York.[2]
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