Today, Indra Devi, the master introduced to you, is not only the first woman practicing yoga in the world, but also the yoga teacher of many goddesses such as Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Song Meiling and so on.
He is also a disciple of Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga, and a disciple of yoga masters such as Pattabhi Jois (founder of Ashtanga Yoga) and b.k.s.
Iyengar (founder of Iyengar yoga).
Indra Devi was born in a Russian noble family.
His life was smooth, but he suffered from a rare heart disease at the age of 30 and had no improvement after four years of treatment.
After accidental exposure to yoga, Indra decided to learn from Krishnamacharya.
But at that time, the inheritance of yoga was only carried out among the Brahmans, the highest caste in India, and was limited to men.
Indra, who was rejected by Krishnamacharya, did not give up.
She made the prince persuade the Brahman and insisted on practicing yoga.
Finally, she persuaded the master to become Krishnamacharya’s first female disciple.
Krishnamacharya reluctantly taught her.
At the beginning, she formulated strict dietary regulations and high-intensity yoga practice, forcing her to give up on her own initiative.
After all, how can a charming aristocrat endure this hardship? However, she strictly adhered to and completed all the exercises with amazing perseverance.
Finally, she became a special disciple of Krishnamacharya and proved herself with strength.
After a year of apprenticeship, Krishnamacharya trained Devi as a yoga teacher.
He asked her to take a notebook and spend several days dictating lessons on yoga teaching, diet and breathing.
Based on this teaching content, Devi finally wrote the first best-selling book on hatha yoga, “always young, always healthy” (1953).
In 1939, Indra came to Shanghai, China, opened the first yoga studio in China in the villa of Chiang Kai Shek and Song Meiling, taught Song Meiling and dignitaries to practice yoga, and became the first yoga teacher to introduce yoga into China.
In 1947, Indra went to the United States.
At this time, she was well known by many Americans.
Her yoga studio was popular in Hollywood and was known as the “first yoga lady” by Americans.
Many Hollywood stars invited her to teach yoga, and many of them became her disciples, including Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jennifer Jones, etc.
Since the United States, Devi, Krishnamacharya’s Yoga has become popular all over the world.
In 1960, Indra was invited to preach yoga in the Kremlin, and the audience was senior leaders such as the former Soviet prime minister, foreign minister and President Su weiai.
Due to Indra’s wonderful and rigorous speech, it was widely praised and recognized, which finally legalized yoga teaching in the former Soviet Union.
Indra, 100, travels around the world, but still teaches yoga, makes public speeches, and transmits the power of yoga to the audience and the world.
Her skin is white and creamy, and her temperament is like orchids.
If her hair is not gray, it is difficult to trace the trace of her excessive aging.
Even if her hair is gray, Indra never thinks she is old.
She said, “if you think you are old, you are old and always come from your heart.” From the moment she began to practice yoga, Indra insisted on yoga every day for more than half a century.
Indra believes that since we breathe every day and eat and drink every day, why not practice yoga every day? If we think it’s right, we should stick to it every day.
When people begged her for a secret recipe for maintenance, Indra said that people all know that yoga can improve the body, but don’t wait until the body is bad, but start when the body is healthy.
In addition, yoga should not only practice the body, but also practice the heart, and make a complete change.
You are still hesitant to practice yoga.
What are you waiting for? Practice quickly! Indra Devi died in 2002, but the Yoga school she founded still warms Yoga people.
Her efforts for Yoga still infect everyone.
Indra Devi’s life is a legend in yoga.
Breaking the rules of traditional yoga, known as “the first lady of yoga”; Yoga was brought from the Indian royal family to the Kremlin and from Asia to Europe, which made Yoga popular all over the world and made a great contribution to the dissemination and inheritance of yoga.
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