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Yoga For Americans
1957049992Englewood Cliffs Nj: Prentice-Hall 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Xxvi 226 Pp. Orange Cloth. First Printing 1957. Near Fine; Ownership Signature Dj With Light Chipping. Eugenie Peterson ; 1899 -2002 Born In St. Petersburg. Eugenie And Her Mother Escaped To Latvia As The Bolsheviks Came To Power In 1917 Losing The Family Fortune; In 1920 They Moved To Poland And In 1921 To Berlin Where She Became An Actress And Dancer. She Set Off To India In 1927 And Came Back Three Months Later A Changed Woman Speaking Only Of India. She Soon Went Back To India Selling Her Valuables To Pay For The Trip. At The Theosophical Society In Adyar Madras Now Chennai Dancing "An Indian Temple Dance" She Met Jawaharlal Nehru Starting A Long-Term Friendship And The Indian Film Director Bhagwati Mishra Who Gave Her A Part In Sher-E-Arab Arabian Knight: The 1930 Premiere Made Her A Film Star In India Under A New Stage Name Indra Devi. In 1930 She Married Jan Strakaty A Commercial Attache To The Czechoslovak Consulate In Bombay And For Some Years Lived As A Society Hostess There. She Became Interested In Yoga Nepal's Prince Mussoorie Showing Her Some Asanas And She Was Impressed By The Yoga Guru Krishnamacharya's Demonstration Of Apparently Stopping His Heart. In 1938 He Reluctantly Accepted Her As A Student. She Was The First Foreign Woman Among His Students In The Yogasala In The Mysore Palace Studying Alongside B.K.S Iyengar And K. Pattabhi Jois Who Went On To Become World-Famous Yoga Teachers. When She Was Leaving India To Follow Her Husband To China Krishnamacharya Asked Her To Work As A Yoga Teacher There. In 1939 She Held What Are Believed To Be The First Yoga Classes In China And Opened A School In Shanghai At The House Of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. There Were Many Americans And Russians Among Her Pupils; She Also Taught Free Classes In Orphanages. More And More People Began To Call Her Mataji Which Means "Respected Mother. Her Husband Died Unexpectedly In 1946 And Devi Returned To India Arriving In Bombay As The British Raj Was Coming To An End. She Was Hosted By The Maharajah Of Tehri Garhwal . She Was Hoping To Stay In Kashmir To Teach Yoga In A Centre To Be Run By The Cambodian Monk Bellong Mahathera But Her Mother Called Her Back To Shanghai Where Devi's House Was Being Requisitioned By The Army In The Chinese Civil War. She Obtained A United States Visa And To San Francisco At The End Of 1947. In California She Met The Author And Philosopher Aldous Huxley And Krishnamurti Giving Her Access To Spiritually-Inclined Americans; An Especially Valuable Contact Was The Diet And Health Guru Paul Bragg Who Advised Film And Stage Stars. In 1948 She Opened A Yoga Studio In Hollywood The First In Los Angeles. Devi Taught Her Own Form Of Hatha Yoga With Asanas Postures And Pranayama Breath Control; She Avoided Spiritual Teaching Which She Preferred To Leave To Yoga Gurus. Her Teaching Style Was In Stefanie Syman's Words "Gentle And Even Relaxing". She Was Almost Immediately Successful In Attracting Leading Stars Including Men As Well As Women; Syman Notes That "She Could Charm The Pants Off Men". Elliott Goldberg Gives A Different Explanation For Her Success Attributing It To Her Packaging Of Yoga For Women As A "Beauty Secret Youth Elixir And Health Tonic". More Generally In His View Devi Saw Yoga As A Remedy For Anxiety And Stress Noting That This Transformed Yoga From Something That Dissolved The Ego To Something That Strengthened It Because He Commented Americans Did Want To Change "But Not All That Much". Devi's Advocacy Of Yoga For Stress Relief Contributed In Goldberg's View To The Widespread Acceptance Of Yoga In America And Earned Her The Nickname "First Lady Of Yoga". She Taught Yoga To Many Celebrities Including Greta Garbo Eva Gabor Gloria Swanson Ramon Novarro Robert Ryan Yul Brynner Jennifer Jones And The Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. See Wikipedia The Early Ancient Yoga Texts Are The First Psychologies. <br/> <br/> Prentice-Hall hardcover
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