Key Features Anyone interested in the living tradition of yoga will find Guruji richly rewarding An unprecedented portrait of a great yoga teacher and how teachings and traditions are transmitted and passed on About the Book: Guruji: A Portrait of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois through the Eyes of His Students It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary duringthe course o Key Features Anyone interested in the living tradition of yoga will find Guruji richly rewarding An unprecedented portrait of a great yoga teacher and how teachings and traditions are transmitted and passed on About the Book: Guruji: A Portrait of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois through the Eyes of His Students It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary duringthe course of his life by virtue of great service to others. Sri K.Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, hetransformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysorethat he founded and ran for more than sixty years trained studentswho, through the knowledge they received and their devotion, havehelped to spread the daily practice of traditional Ashtanga yoga totens of thousands around the world. Guruji paints a unique portrait of a unique man, revealedthrough the accounts of his students. Among the thirty men andwomen interviewed here are Indian students from Joiss earlyteaching days, intrepid Americans and Europeans who traveled toMysore to learn yoga in the 1970s, and important family members whostudied as well as lived with Jois and continue to practice andteach abroad or run the Ashtanga Yoga Institute today. Many of thecontributors (as well as the authors) are influential teachers whoconvey their experience of Jois every day to students in manydifferent parts of the globe. About the Authors: Guy Donahaye, Eddie Stern Guy Donahaye and Eddie Stern became students of Sri K. PattabhiJois in 1991. Donahaye is the director of the Ashtanga Yoga ShalaNYC. Stern is the director of the Ashtanga Yoga New York and SriGanesh Temple, and is the co-publisher and editor of Namarupa.