page_title: Marian Garfinkel
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Marian Garfinkel / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Marian Garfinkel publicity photo
context_page_description: Marian Garfinkel was an early researcher in the field of complementary medicine, showing that yoga could be used to treat and possibly cure a variety of hand injuries resulting from repetitive use. She studied with B. K. S. Iyengar for over 40 years, making annual trips to yoga centers in India, France, California and Michigan. As a result of her contact with Iyengar, she and her former husband Marvin Garfinkel is credited with inspiring the sculptor Robert Engman to create the sculpture After Iyengar, currently on display at the Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC.
context_section_description: Garfinkel grew up in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children. She taught at Linden Hall, a prep school for girls, from 1955 to 1957. After the death of her first husband she married Marvin Garfinkel in 1962. She studied art at the Barnes Foundation under  Violette de Mazia, who she considered a friend. She moved from Center City, Philadelphia to Merion Station before settling at Cobble Court in 1974. She returned to Philadelphia in 1986.
  Following the award of her degree, Dr. Garfinkel assumed teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University.
  In 2016, Garfinkel's extensive archives regarding B. K. S. Iyengar were donated to the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States (IYANUS).
  Garfinkel is a senior certified Iyengar teacher who was a student of B. K. S. Iyengar between 1976, when she first met him in Ann Arbor, MI, and his death in 2014.
caption: Marian Garfinkel in 2008
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