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K. Pattabhi Jois (26 July 1915 [1] – 18 May 2009) [2] was an Indian yoga guru [3] who developed and popularized the flowing style of yoga as exercise known as Ashtanga vinyasa yoga. [ a ] [ 4 ] In 1948, Jois established the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute [ 5 ] in Mysore , India . [ 6 ]
Ashtanga yoga (not to be confused with Patanjali's aṣṭāṅgayoga, the eight limbs of yoga) is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of medieval hatha yoga. [1] Jois claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. The style is ...
Guru is a British 2006 short documentary film about the guru of yoga as exercise K. Pattabhi Jois, directed by the BBC film producer Robert Wilkins. The film shows Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy teaching in the yogashala at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. [1]
K. Pattabhi Jois is one of many yoga gurus who have been accused of sexual abuse. [4]The Indian Express, listing allegations of sexual abuse against multiple yoga gurus (Bikram Choudhury, creator of Bikram Yoga; [5] Kausthub Desikachar, grandson of the "father of modern yoga" [6] Krishnamacharya; and Swami Satchidananda), noted that several other gurus had been similarly accused, but released ...
Authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois: The Role of Parampara and Lineage in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, by Jean Byrne; B.K.S. Iyengar as a Yoga Teacher and Yoga Guru, by Frederick M. Smith and Joan White; The Institutionalization of the Yoga Tradition: Gurus B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain, by Suzanne Newcombe; Part Three: Tantra Based Gurus
R. Sharath Jois (born Rangaswamy Sharath; 29 September 1971 – 11 November 2024) was an Indian teacher, practitioner and lineage holder (paramaguru) of Ashtanga Yoga, in the tradition of his grandfather K. Pattabhi Jois.
B.K.S. Iyengar was born into a poor Sri Vaishnava Iyengar family [10] in Bellur, Kolar district, [11] Karnataka, India. He was the 11th of 13 children (10 of whom survived) born to Sri Krishnamachar, a school teacher, and Sheshamma. [12] When Iyengar was five years old, his family moved to Bangalore.
The vinyasa forms of yoga used as exercise, including Pattabhi Jois's 1948 Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and its spin-off schools such as Beryl Bender Birch's 1995 Power Yoga and others like Baptiste Yoga, Jivamukti Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Power Vinyasa Yoga, and Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, derive from Krishnamacharya's development of a flowing aerobic style of yoga in the Mysore Palace in the early ...