The Eightfold Path of Yoga

by Shivani Bhatt

Patanjali, the father of Yoga was a great physician too. Supposed to have lived during 200 B.C to 200 A.D, his book Yoga  Sutra is a guide book for simple and healthy living.  Yoga Sutra has 195 aphorisms or sutras which actually do not describe the yogic postures or asanas. Yoga as described by him […]

Ashtanga Yoga - Mysore School

by Shivani Bhatt

“Sit still and you get monkeys in your head!” –K. Pattabhi Jois
Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois was born in a priest family of Kowshika village near Hassan in Karnataka. His father was not only a priest but also an astrologer who was the family priest of several families in the village. Like other Hindu boys of […]