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Sri K Pattabhi Jois

Sri K Pattabhi Jois (1915 - 2009)

Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois (Guruji) was born on the day of the full moon, July, 1915.

He grew up in his ancestral village, Kowshika. His Father worked as an astrologer and a the village priest.

Sri K Pattabhi Jois - Biography He became a student of Sri Tirumali Krishnamacharya in 1927 at the age of 12.

Over the next twenty-five years, he learned and mastered the practices passed on to him by his Guru.

He attended the sanskrit college in Mysore, Karnataka were he eventually became a professor or Vidwan.

With the funding of the Maharaja of Mysore and the blessing of Krishnamacharya, Guruji started the Yoga Department at the Sanskrit College March 1, 1937

He began writing the book Yoga Mala in 1958, and completed the manuscript over a three-year period.

He retired from the Sanskrit College in 1973.

In 1948, Guruji established the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute (AYRI) from his home in Laxmipuram, Mysore. He taught there until 2003 when he moved the shala to his new family home in Gokulum, Mysore.

He was married to Savitramma in a love marriage and they had three children, Manju, Ramesh, and Saraswati.

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois died in 2009.

Today the lineage is held by his daughter Saraswati, and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy, the Director of the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute.

To find out more about Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, visit the KPJAYI Website .




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