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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]
Jois's father was an astrologer, priest, and landholder. His mother took care of the house and the nine children - five girls and four boys - of whom Pattabhi Jois was the fifth. From the age of five, he was instructed in Sanskrit and rituals by his father, which is standard training for Hindu boys. No one else in his family learned yoga. [15]
Whether you practice the dynamic series of Pattabhi Jois, the refined alignments of B. K. S. Iyengar, the classical postures of Indra Devi, or the customized vinyasa of Viniyoga, your practice stems from one source: a five-foot, two-inch Brahmin born more than one hundred years ago in a small South Indian village. [6]
Jois was born on 29 September 1971 in Mysore, India to Saraswati Rangaswamy, daughter of K. Pattabhi Jois. [1] Jois was born into a family dedicated to the practice, preservation and teaching of Ashtanga yoga as his grandfather had learned from his teacher, T. Krishnamacharya. Jois, being exposed to yoga since birth, began practicing asanas ...
Pattabhi (Telugu: పట్టాభి) is an Indian name. Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, an Indian independence activist and political leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh; K. Pattabhi Jois, an Indian yoga teacher; Pattabhi Rama Reddy Tikkavarapu, an Indian writer, film producer and director; Pattabhi Ram Kommareddy, Indian politician
The Mysore style of asana practice is the way of teaching yoga as exercise within the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga tradition as taught by K. Pattabhi Jois in the southern Indian city of Mysore; its fame has made that city a yoga hub with a substantial yoga tourism business.
Enlighten Up! follows a 29-year-old unemployed journalist, Nick Rosen, [1] for six months as, on Kate Churchill's invitation, he travels the globe – New York, Boulder, California, Hawaii, India – to practise under yoga masters including Pattabhi Jois, his first American pupil Norman Allen, [2] and B. K. S. Iyengar to see if he will be converted.
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