Celebrity Indian yoga guru dies at 93
Reuters
May 21, 2009 01:24am
KRISHNA Pattabhi Jois, the modern guru of
ashtanga yoga popularised by celebrities such as Sting and Madonna, has
died, according to his institute’s website.
ashtanga yoga popularised by celebrities such as Sting and Madonna, has
died, according to his institute’s website.
Jois, who studied ashtanga yoga from the age
of 12, is credited with popularising in the West one of the most
rigorous forms of yoga. He died on Monday.
Jois,
whose grandson Sharath is co-director of the yoga institute in Mysore,
taught ashtanga yoga to his first western student in 1964.
He
visited the United States first in 1975, and also took his brand of
yoga - which focuses on synchronising postures with breathing and
claims to cleanse the body by heating the blood - to Europe.