K. Pattabhi Jois

K. Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009) was an Indian yoga teacher who popularized Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga internationally and founded the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore.

T. Krishnamacharya: An influential Indian yoga teacher who taught Jois in Mysore and helped shape modern postural yoga. Jois studied with Krishnamacharya, whose teaching influenced his yoga system.
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga: A system of yoga linking set sequences of postures with breath, movement, and focused attention. This is the yoga system Jois taught and popularized internationally.
Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute: A yoga school founded by K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore to teach his Ashtanga system. Jois established this institution as the center of his teaching.
Ashtanga yoga lineage: A network of teachers and students transmitting the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga system associated with K. Pattabhi Jois. His students and successors carried the practice into schools around the world.
Sharath Jois: An Indian yoga teacher and grandson of K. Pattabhi Jois who led the Mysore institute after Jois’s death. He became a leading successor in the Mysore Ashtanga lineage.
Mysore-style yoga: A format in which students practice a memorized sequence individually while a teacher gives personal guidance. Jois’s Mysore classes became the model for this widely adopted teaching format.
Mysore: A city in Karnataka, India, historically associated with the Wodeyar dynasty and modern yoga teaching. Jois taught there for most of his career, drawing international students to the city.
Yoga in the United States: The development and practice of yoga in the United States, shaped by diverse teachers, movements, and institutions. Jois’s visiting students and American trainees helped bring his style into U.S. yoga culture.
Nancy Gilgoff: An American yoga teacher who studied with Jois in Mysore and helped introduce Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in the United States. Her early study and teaching helped carry Jois’s method to Western practitioners.
Surya Namaskara: A sequence of linked yoga postures traditionally performed as a salutation to the sun. Sun salutations form the repeated opening sequences in Jois’s Ashtanga practice.

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