Theos Bernard. A native of Los Angeles, he is universally recognized as one of the most serious forerunners of yoga and Buddhism in the United States. He was a convinced yoga student and due to his college training, L.L.B. (Law Degree) M.A. (Master of Arts) and Ph.D. (Doctorate in Philosophy), his works are characterized by having a criterion and rigor according to his training. Upon completing his second degree he traveled to India and Tibet, to learn about the yoga of the East. He lived there for some time during which he underwent training and preparation as a yogi at the hands of chosen local gurus who instructed him in the way yoga is traditionally taught in India (a way that is currently very difficult to do). find). Back in the United States, he opened the American Institute of Yoga and Health, and later founded the New York Sanskrit College, a socially liberal but exclusive resource for young New Yorkers, making available a research library of some 7000 volumes on topics of philosophy, ethics, psychology, education and metaphysics, as well as much material on physiology, medicine and related sciences. He continued to work and give lectures at Columbia University, and in 1944 he published his masterpiece: Hatha Yoga, currently presented by ELA Editorial. For all the yoga personalities in the world, Theos Bernard is one of the great pioneers of yoga of non-Hindu origin, par excellence.