3 great yoga masters to know



Like any field of human culture, yoga too has its roots in the path of history, articulating diachronically over many centuries. This long time span, which goes from antiquity to the present day, has been trampled by some essential figures, points of light in the history of the discipline.

Often the most cultural and precisely historical aspect of yoga is taken into little account during the lessons, so we will try to fill part of the gap.

Obviously we have no claim to completeness, on the contrary: we will just outline the contours of very complex figures that, if the reader is interested, will be able to investigate independently thanks to the large amount of literature in this regard.

Here is some information on 3 great yogic figures : we have not chosen them because we consider them "better" or "more important", simply every studio has a starting point and we offer you our proposal!

Patanjali, yoga master of the 2nd century BC

We could only start from the beginning of yoga, at least symbolically: Patanjali, the Indian philosopher, author of the "Yoga Sutras", a veritable bible of the discipline.

More precisely, he was the first author to write down all the knowledge related to yoga that until then had been handed down orally, from teacher to student. Thus he gave us a real manual of practice in every aspect, philosophical, mystical and everyday.

The Yoga Sutras are a text that we advise you to approach with caution, preferring editions with a good commentary that will help you decipher the most cryptic points.

In short : the symbolic father of yoga, philosopher and author of the first book on the discipline.

Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009)

Let's take a huge leap in time and arrive in the last century, the one that saw the spread of yoga worldwide, also thanks to the teacher we are about to present to you.

Pattabhi Jois was a student of the famous Krishnamacharya and founder of the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore (India). As can be guessed from the name of the center, it is he who codified and popularized Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga in India and in the world.

Distinguished yoga teachers have stopped at his institute to learn more about this vigorous and energetic yoga style. Among them the famous Andrè van Lysebeth, to whom Pattabhi Jois owes his fortune in the West.

In short: a figure that is not free from shadows, but certainly closely linked with one of the most widespread and appreciated yoga styles today.

Andrè Van Lysebeth (1919-2004)

Cited in the previous paragraph, we cannot fail to investigate one of the pioneers of yoga in the West, precisely in the heart of our Europe.

In fact, one of the most popular and studied yoga texts is " I learn yoga ", a simple and clear manual for those who want to take their first steps in the discipline.

A prolific writer, Andrè Van Lysebeth traveled extensively in India to learn the local yoga traditions and deepen his knowledge. He consecrated his life to yoga becoming a reference point for the discipline of which he contributed enormously to the spread and systematic study.

In short : an indispensable writer in the learning of yoga, the author of a bridge between classical Indian yoga and that of Western implant, developed in the 1900s.

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