 A still shows three women in Shirshasana (tripod headstand) on a circular stage.Classes in yoga as exercise started to appear across Britain in the 1960s, and asana sessions became a common option among adult education evening classes.For example, in Birmingham, a local newspaper editor, Wilfred Clark, gave a lecture on yoga to the Workers' Educational Association in 1961, meeting such an enthusiastic response that he proposed yoga classes to the local education authority, and founded in turn the Birmingham Yoga Club, the Midlands Yoga Association, and finally the British Wheel of Yoga in 1965.