Currie, Barbara 1942-

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CURRIE, Barbara 1942-

PERSONAL:

Born 1942; married; children: two. Education: Trained as a nurse.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Surrey, England. Agent—Knight Ayton Management, 114 St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4BE, England.

CAREER:

Teacher of hatha yoga, 1972—, currently runs a school in Surrey, England; host of a television show; performer in yoga videotapes, including Power of Yoga, Seven Secrets of Yoga, and Total Body Plan, 2003. Worked as a nurse in a hospital in the 1960s; also worked as an airline hostess for B.O.A.C. (now British Airways) and as a model.

WRITINGS:

Fabulous Shape Forever: Yoga—the Ultimate Shape System, Andre Deutsch (London, England), 1997.

Yoga Workout: Having a Fabulous Shape Forever, Firefly Books (Buffalo, NY), 2002.

Ten-Minute Yoga Workouts: Power Tone Your Body from Top to Toe, Element Books (London, England), 2002.

Get Younger with Yoga: Lose Fifteen Years in Fifteen Minutes a Day, Thorsons (London, England), 2003.

Contributor to periodicals.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, October 15, 2002, Deborah Anne Broocker, review of Yoga Workout: Having a Fabulous Shape Forever, p. 88.

ONLINE

Barbara Currie Unofficial Web site,http://www.barbaracurrie.ukbe.com/ (January 17, 2003).*

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