The Life and Times of Shri Krishna Pattabhi Jois- The Father of Asthanga-Vinyasa Yoga
Some people are especially endowed by the God. Though every human being is unique in its own self, it is also a real fact that some of the people are destined to play a bigger role for the people. Shri K. Pattabho Jois (KPJ, in short) was one such person who was destined to achieve unimaginable heights in the field of yoga and to show the way of wellness to the people. Had it not been so, he would not have stood apart from the nine siblings of his parents and the only one to have learnt yoga. At the age of 12, when most of us are not even aware of who we are, he attended a demonstration by Shri T. Krishnamacharya in Hassan and decided to be his student the very next day. He learnt yoga from the master for full two years. After parting ways, he was again reunited with his master after some years when both of them were at Mysore. He studied Sanskrit by being with him from 1932 to 1953. He was offered a teaching position in Sanskrit College in Mysore and he ...