A famous yoga instructor who taught stars including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow has died suddenly at age 53.
R. Sharath Jois, a physical educator who had acquired a legion of celebrity clients, died Monday in Virginia. The Hindu has reported.
The cause of his death has not been announced; He is survived by his wife and two children.
Jois’s grandfather, K. Pattabhi Jois, was known for popularizing ashtanga yoga and began helping his grandfather teach it when he was only 19 years old.
He then became director of the Sharath Yoga Center in Mysore, India, in 2007, when his grandfather became too old to run the school.
A famous yoga instructor who taught stars including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow has died suddenly at age 53.
In recent years, he began teaching his practices in the United States to a host of stars, including Madonna, Gwyneth and Sting.
She had embarked on a yoga teaching tour of the United States in October and was in Virginia for one of the tour stops when she tragically died.
On the day of his death, he shared images of a class he had taught at the University of Virginia’s Center for Contemplative Sciences.
He was scheduled to travel to San Antonio, Texas, this weekend; He also had workshops scheduled in Mysuru, Sydney and Dubai in the coming months.
The yoga instructor talked about working with celebrities to Indian Times back in 2006.
He said at the time: “Whether it was Madonna, Sting or Gwyneth, once they signed up for the classes, they were very disciplined.”
“In class, they are just like any student, minus the stardom and celebrity status.”
He recalled that the Goop founder “walked into his class in New York, just to check it out” and instantly “was hooked.”
R. Sharath Jois, a physical educator who had acquired a legion of celebrity clients, died on Monday in Virginia, The Hindu reported.
The cause of his death has not been announced; He is survived by his wife and two children.
She had embarked on a yoga teaching tour of the United States in October and was in Virginia for one of the tour stops when she tragically died.
As for Madonna, Jois said she had been learning ashtanga yoga for more than a decade and was in the “advanced series, the hardest of all” at the time of the interview.
“No matter how high we go in life, it is important to stay strong and respect our roots,” he added.
‘Only you can help yourself. Yoga does just that, it helps you find inner peace. “It goes beyond reducing fat.”
Ashtanga yoga is one of the most popular forms of yoga and “focuses on a vigorous physical practice that includes a series of postures linked with breathing to form a continuous sequence,” according to YogaBasics.com.
jois told him LA-YOGA that the practice is both “spiritual” and “physical” and that its classes are dedicated to integrating both.
‘In (some forms of) modern yoga, it’s mostly about acrobatics. “No one knows where they inhale, where they exhale, how the posture helps our body and our mind,” he said.
‘They don’t know how our breathing helps our body, nervous system and mind. But this is very important.
“Yoga is becoming popular all over the world, but only a few people have understood it well and reached its roots.”