Lilias Folan, the American yoga teacher and television presenter behind the PBS program Lilias, Yoga and You, died on March 8, 2026.
The show, later shortened to Lilias!, first aired on WCET in Cincinnati on October 5, 1970 and was carried nationwide on PBS three years later, running until 1999. Folan began practicing yoga as exercise in 1964 and soon taught at the YWCA in Stamford, Connecticut.
She also studied asanas under T. K. V. Desikachar, B. K. S. Iyengar and Angela Farmer, and broadened her knowledge under Swami Vishnudevananda and Swami Satchidananda.
Lilias, Yoga and You (later shortened to Lilias!) is a PBS television show hosted by Lilias Folan, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based practitioner of yoga as exercise. The show first aired on October 5, 1970 on Cincinnati PBS member station WCET and three years later was carried on PBS across the United States, where it ran until 1999.