Indra Devi, upper left, in her distinctive sari;[1] 1963 album cover
Born
Eugenie Peterson
12 May 1899
Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died
25 April 2002 (aged 102)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation
yoga teacher
Known for
Bringing yoga to Hollywood Yoga for stress relief
Spouse(s)
Jan Strakaty (1930–1946; his death) Sigfrid Knauer (1953–1984; his death)
Website
Official webpage (in Spanish)
Eugenie Peterson (Latvian: Eiženija Pētersone, Russian: Евгения Васильевна Петерсон; 22 May, 1899 – 25 April 2002),[2] known as Indra Devi, was a pioneering teacher of yoga as exercise, and an early disciple of the "father of modern yoga",[3] Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.
She went to India in her twenties, becoming a film star there and acquiring the stage name Indra Devi. She was the first woman to study under the yoga guru Krishnamacharya at the Mysore Palace, alongside B.K.S Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois who went on to become yoga gurus. Moving to China, she taught the first yoga classes in that country at Madame Chiang Kai-shek's house.
Her popularization of yoga in America through her many celebrity pupils in Hollywood, and her books advocating yoga for stress relief, earned her the nickname "first lady of yoga". Her biographer, Michelle Goldberg, wrote that Devi "planted the seeds for the yoga boom of the 1990s".[4]
Евгения Васильевна Петерсон; 22 May, 1899 – 25 April 2002), known as IndraDevi, was a pioneering teacher of yoga as exercise, and an early disciple of...
and Mary Bagot Stack in Britain. One of the pioneers of modern yoga, IndraDevi, a pupil of Krishnamacharya, popularised yoga among American women using...
students included many of yoga's most renowned and influential teachers: IndraDevi (1899–2002); K. Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009); B. K. S. Iyengar (1918-2014);...
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conclude that Shanti Devi has former life recollections or that this case proves reincarnation". This argument was disputed by Indra Sen, a devotee of Sri...
Agni Yoga of Nicholas Roerich and Helena Roerich in the 1920s. Later, IndraDevi, who left Russia during the Russian Revolution, studied under the pioneer...
Future of the World (2009); and The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of IndraDevi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West (2015). Goldberg was born...
Indra (/ˈɪndrə/; Sanskrit: इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism. He is associated with the sky, lightning, weather, thunder, storms...
yoga from T. K. V. Desikachar and B. K. S. Iyengar as a boy, and had IndraDevi as godmother, uses a Vinyasa (flow) style, the breath linked to the movements...
Kannan nor live with him. When asked, she reveals about Indira Devi and her lover Indra Kumar. Indira worked as a tailor and lived in a hut with Ishwarya...
Emerson and Thoreau, the arrival of Vivekananda, the role of Hollywood with IndraDevi, the hippie generation, and the leaders of a revived but now postural...
April 2015). "IndraDevi Was Not Just a Nice Old Lady". Huffington Post. Retrieved 18 October 2018. Martin, Douglas (30 April 2002). "IndraDevi, 102, Dies;...
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the yoga guru IndraDevi and was photographed performing a series of yoga poses, reportedly looking much younger than her age, for Devi to use in her...
is described to be emerging from Indra and has similar characteristics to him. According to later chapters in the Devi Mahatmyam, the Matrikas appeared...
defined a modern set of yoga postures in his 1966 book Light on Yoga; and IndraDevi taught yoga as exercise to many celebrities in Hollywood. Other major...
Kuvalayananda, Pant Pratinidhi, Krishnamacharya, B. K. S. Iyengar and IndraDevi. The book's thesis is that modern yoga progressed in three stages from...
system, influenced by physical culture, to the United States. From 1948, IndraDevi, a pupil of Krishnamacharya, brought yoga to public attention by teaching...
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The Devi Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: देवी भागवतपुराणम्, devī bhāgavatapurāṇam), also known as the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam or simply Devi Bhagavatam, is...
who emphasized alignment and the use of props in Iyengar Yoga, and by IndraDevi and Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar. Krishnamacharya-linked...
youngest son of King Mahendra of Nepal and his first wife, Crown Princess Indra. He studied with his brothers King Birendra and King Gyanendra in St Joseph's...
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