Guruji
Subtitle: a portrait of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois through the eyes of his students
By: Guy Donahaye and Eddie Stern
Contributors: Stern, Eddie, 1967-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780865477490
Description: Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, he transformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysore that he founded and ran for more than sixty years trained students who, through the knowledge they received and their devotion, have helped to spread the daily practice of traditional Ashtanga yoga to tens of thousands around the world. Gurujipaints a unique portrait of a unique man, revealed through the accounts of his students. Among the thirty men and women interviewed here are Indian students from Joiss early teaching days; intrepid Americans and Europeans who traveled to Mysore to learn yoga in the 1970s; and important family members who studied as well as lived with Jois and continue to practice and teach abroad or run the Ashtanga Yoga Institute today. Many of the contributors (as well as the authors) are influential teachers who convey their experience of Jois every day to students in many different parts of the globe. Anyone interested in the living tradition of yoga will findGurujirichly rewarding.