BREATH of the GODS, Origins of Modern Yoga+Krishnamacharya's Life Yoga Session

A Journey to the Origins of Modern Yoga, featuring yoga legends B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, T. K. Sribhashyam, and T. Krishnamacharya. Just $15 at Unity of Melbourne in Burwood, evening Format:

• 6:30pm Krishnamacharya's "Life Saving Yoga Session" (optional) with accomplished yoga therapist George Neo, see http://www.yogaplex.com.au/ . For ALL levels, includes Yogaplex Advanced Hatha Concepts basics.

• 7:30pm bring Food or snacks to Share.

• 8pm screening BREATH of the GODS movie.

• 9:40pm Discussion & Bonus Material.

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Modern yoga practiced daily by tens of millions around the world, goes back directly to Lord Shiva according to Indian tradition. At the same time, however, modern yoga originated in the early 20th century, a creation of Indian savant T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989). That story is far less known and is what this film is all about.

Krishnamacharya’s life and teachings are seen through the eyes of the director Jan Schmidt-Garre on his search for authentic yoga. His journey leads him from the legendary students and relatives of Krishnamacharya’s to the source of modern yoga, at the palace of the Maharaja of Mysore. From Pattabhi Jois Jan learns the “Sun salutation”, from Iyengar the “King of Asanas”, the headstand, and finally Sribhashyam reveals to him his father’s secret “Life Saving Yoga Session”.

A feature-length documentary including rare historical footage as well as lavish reenactments, screening at this magnificent Burwood venue =

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3-minute trailer:

https://youtu.be/79XZmXfbqk8

T. Krishnamacharya: Born around 1888 in Muchukunte, South India, died in 1989 in Madras. He founded the Yogashala, the world’s most influential Yoga school.

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B. K. S. Iyengar: Born in 1918 in Bellur, South India. As a child he suffered from Malaria, Typhus and Tuberculosis. Krishnamacharya, who is married to Iyengar’s sister, succeeds in healing him. Iyengar studies Yoga with Krishnamacharya and teaches Yoga himself in Pune from 1937 onwards. In the 1950s the violinist Yehudi Menhuin becomes his student and brings him to the West. Iyengar becomes the most famous Yoga teacher of his days. He published 25 books, among them the classic Light on Yoga, and spreads his teaching through severals hundred Iyengar schools around the world. In 1996 Time Magazine included B. K. S. Iyengar in the list of the “100 most influential people of the 20th century”.

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Pattabhi Jois: Born in 1915 in Kowshika, South India. At the age of twelve he witnesses one of Krishnamacharya’s public demonstrations. He is so fascinated by it that he resolves to dedicate his life to Yoga. He studies with Krishnamacharya at the Yogashala in Mysore. In 1949 he founds the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore. He continues teaching at the Institute to the very end of his life in 2009, the time when Breath of the Gods was being filmed.

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Plus Yogaplex Advanced Hatha Yoga basics that apply equally from Gentle to Advanced =

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