K. Pattabhi Jois
K. Pattabhi Jois ( Krishna Pattabhi Jois ; born July 26, 1915 in Kowshika in what is now the Indian state of Karnataka ; † May 18, 2009 in Mysore , Karnataka) was one of the early students of T. Krishnamacharya from 1927 to 1945 and is considered an important representative of hatha yoga . The hatha yoga system he taught, which is known today under the name "Ashtanga Yoga" or " Ashtanga (Vinyasa) Yoga ", he himself learned from Krishnamacharya. The name "Ashtanga Yoga" refers to the eightfold path of Patañjaliwho forms the spiritual and moral background of his system of asana ( understood as "calm body posture" in the yoga sutra of Patañjali) and pranayama (breathing exercises). K. Pattabhi Jois also referred to Krishnamacharya's vinyasa krama principle. "Vinyasa" means an asana practice in which the asana is not performed statically as a held position, but dynamically linked to the breath in a fixed sequence of movements.
K. Pattabhi Jois studied Sahitya Veda and Advaita Vedanta at the Sanskrit College in Mysore from 1930 to 1936 . From 1937 to 1973 he taught yoga there. K. Pattabhi Jois had the title of "Vidwan" (which roughly corresponds to the title of a professor). Later he received the honorary titles of Honorary Professor of Yoga, Yogasana Visharada and Shastra Nidhi from other institutions. In 1948 he opened a small yoga school, the "Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute" (AYRI) in his home in Lakshmipuram (Mysore), which moved to a larger building in Gokulam (Mysore) in 2002 and has been "K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute" since 2008 (KPJAYI) is called. Pattabhi Jois also opened his school to Western students. His European students included u. a. André van Lysebeth . He became known mainly through his American students, e. B. David Williams, who brought him to the United States for the first time in 1975. His book "Yoga Mala", which he published in his native Kannada language in 1962, was also published in English in 1999. Today Pattabhi Jois' grandson Sharat Jois runs the school in Mysore.
K. Pattabhi Jois had three children (the daughter Saraswathi and the sons Manju and Ramesh) with his wife Savitramma, with whom he was married from 1937 until her death in 1997.
In the course of the #MeToo debate, tangible allegations of abuse against Pattabhi Jois came up for the first time at the end of 2017. On April 25, 2018, the Canadian yoga researcher Matthew Remski published an article on The Walrus that discloses the abuse cases involving Pattabhi Jois from the perspective of nine of his students.
Web links
- biography
- K. Pattabhi Jois, leading teacher of Ashtanga yoga, dies at 94 (obituary in the Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2009)
Individual evidence
- ^ Yoga's Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories . In: The Walrus . ( thewalrus.ca [accessed August 1, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pattabhi Jois, K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pattabhi Jois, Krishna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian yoga teacher, founder of the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kowshika , Karnataka |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2009 |
| Place of death | Mysore , Karnataka |