Ashtanga Yoga Institue of Brussels, 610 Chaussée d'Alsemberg - 1180 Brussels - Belgium
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Shri K. Pattabhi Jois recommends that before practising the yoga postures you should say a prayer to the Supreme Guru (in sanskrit).
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Moon Mantras Chants |
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The Guru Suprême Patañjali |
Shri K. Pattabhi Jois
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Shri K. Pattabhi Jois was born on July 26th 1915, on the day of a full moon, in a small village near Somnâthpur - Karnataka-South India. His father, Krishna Pattabhi Jois, was a famous astrologer.
Shri K. Patthabhi Jois started teaching yoga in India in 1937, and later taught in the U.S.A. and Europe. He now has students from all over the world who come to study this method of yoga. In 1942, he is the founder and director of the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute of Mysore. Four years later, in 1946, he founded the Ashtanga Research Institute where he experiments and develops the curative virtues of yoga. Then from 1976 to 1978 he appointed professor was emeritus of Yoga at the Government College of Indian Medicine in Mysore.
His grandson, Sharath Rangaswamy, son of Sarasvatî, born in 1971, is now assistant director of the Institute, helping his grandfather, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, to teach the principles of the Yoga Korunta. Sharath is now married, and recently (in January) became the proud father of a beautiful little girl. Mother and child are both fine. The baby is a very pretty girl but quite big already - she weighed 8,5 pounds at birth. Her name is Shradda ("dedication"). While her 'official' names will be the same as those of Amma. |
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| Shri K. Pattabhi Jois was married. His lovely wife, Amma (Savitramma), died in December 1997. She always had a smile, a comfort or a benediction on her lips and she prepared coffee that was absolutely delicious. She had also studied the ancient yoga texts with Shri T. Krishnamacharya. They had three children, two boys and a girl (Ramesh, their eldest sun died in an accident on the Kâverî Dam). Manju, their son, teaches yoga at Emanitas in California. Saraswati, their daughter, still lives in Mysore. She is married to a schoolteacher and she too teaches yoga. |
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| His grandson, Sharath Rangaswamy, son of Sarasvatî, born in 1971, is now assistant director of the Institute, helping his grandfather, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, to teach the principles of the Yoga Korunta. Sharath is now married, and recently (in January) became the proud father of a beautiful little girl. Mother and child are both fine. The baby is a very pretty girl but quite big already - she weighed 8,5 pounds at birth. Her name is Shradda ("dedication"). While her 'official' names will be the same as those of Amma. |
The new address of "Yogashala"
Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute
235, 8th Cross
2nd Main, 3rd Stage
Gokulam, Mysore 570 002
Karnataka, India
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The Institute is located: 610 Chaussée d'Alsemberg (Uccle) - 1180 Brussels - Phone: 02 340 67 81 - Fax: 02 340 67 89 - jean.claude.garnier@skynet.be