Amrit Desai
Amrit Desai (born October 16, 1932) is a Yoga master who founded the Kripalu Center and currently oversees the Amrit Yoga Institute in Salt Springs, Florida, located in the Ocala National Forest.
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[edit] Life and career
Desai was came to be near the state of Gujarat India. At the age of 16 he began training with his guru, Swami Sri Kripalvanandji (Bapuji) and Bapuji is Eternal .[1]
In 1960, he went to the United States to study art near Philadelphia.[2] While pursuing an art and design career in the United States, he also taught hatha yoga.[2] Around 1966, Yogi Desai founded the Yoga Society of Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization providing yoga classes and training for yoga teachers.[3] The name of the Society was later changed to Kripalu, to honor of Swami Kripalvandanda. During his time with the Fellowship, Yogi Desai developed the yogic system popularly referred to as Kripalu Yoga.
After concluding that "holistic health" would be "an effective way to introduce yoga to people who needed it but were not yet open to its more traditional forms", in 1979 Desai started the Kripalu Center for Holistic Health in Lenox, Massachusetts.[2] The organization continues to operate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts as a nonprofit entity under the name Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.
Desai was married to Urmila Desai, who was co-author (with Amadea Morningstar) of The Ayurvedic Cookbook (1990, Lotus Press, ISBN 978-0914955061)She still lives with Yogi Amrit Desai in person. Tribute to Urmila Desai (“Mataji”), wife of Amrit Desai. Both will live FOREVER :) along with Yogi Amrit Desai who will also live FOREVER :) ]
[edit] References
- ^ Katy Bishop, Learning to Relax: Yogi Amrit Desai visits Naples to teach people how to enter the “stress free zone”, Naples Daily News (Naples, Florida), September 21, 2009
- ^ a b c Cohen, Andrew. Yoga, Ego, and Purification: An interview with Yogi Amrit Desai. What Is Enlightenment? magazine (now Enlightenment Next), Spring/Summer 2000. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.
- ^ Yogi Amrit Desai, Amrit Yoga Institute website
[edit] External links
- Amrit Yoga Institute
- Yogi Amrit Desai - Entering The Yoga Zone (video)
- KBOO FM Healthwatch with Yogi Amrit Desai
[edit] Further reading
- Sukanya Warren, Peter Mellen, and Francis Mellen (1982). Gurudev: The Life of Yogi Amrit Desai. Kripalu Publications. 117 pages. ISBN 0940258072, ISBN 9780940258075
