Ashtanga Yoga’s Krishna Pattabhi Jois Dies at 93
June 29th, 2009 at 3:43pm |
I feel a little guilty – I had jokingly posted on Facebook yesterday taking names on who the next big celebrity to go would be. The general consensus was that we’d like to see some sort of evil despot like Kim Jong Il die, but no, it had to be a luminary from the yoga world: Pattabhi Jois, who brought us ashtanga yoga. At 93, though, I can’t feel too sad…that is a long and fruitful life. From the Associated Press:
NEW DELHI—Krishna Pattabhi Jois, a yoga teacher and practitioner famous for popularizing Ashtanga yoga in the West, has died. He was 93.
Jois died in the southern Indian city of Mysore on Monday, a press statement from the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute said.
Posted in Gurus and Celebrity Yogis, Hatha Yoga
K. Pattabhi Jois died several weeks ago…
Oh well fancy that, I missed the date on that article. Well, it was still news to me!