Our Lineage
At The Yoga Shala, we build our teaching on the Traditional Ashtanga Mysore Method, remaining true to the Ashtanga lineage. Obtaining knowledge of this lineage will provide a clear understanding of how this ancient system of yoga was built and what values and traditions we continue to honor at the shala.
Sharath Jois, Saraswati’s son and Sri K Pattabhi Jois' grandson, was born into a family of dedicated yoga practitioners. At the young age of 7, Sharath learned his first asanas and began practicing experimenting with an advanced series of postures until he was 14. After taking a three year break to obtain a degree in Electronics, he began his formal studies of yoga at the age of nineteen. Since then, he has maintained a daily practice of Ashtanga Yoga, and is dedicated in his role of Director of the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India. Sharath Jois is Krista Shirley's Yoga teacher and he carries to torch for the Ashtanga Yoga Lineage. We are grateful for his guidance and support.
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Saraswati Rangaswamy, daughter of Sri K Pattabhi Jois, played with different yoga postures very early on and began formal studies of asthanga at the young age of 10. She eventually became the first women admitted to the Sanskrit College in Mysore, India. Between the years of 1971 and 1975, Saraswati assisted her father in his Lakshmipuram yoga shala. She later went on to teach on her own at the Balaji Temple in V.V. Mohalla for the next 25 years. It wasn’t until, 2002 when her father opened his new yoga institute to Gokulam, that she returned to teach along side him. Today, she is a familiar face at Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, teaching yoga students from around the world.
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