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There were many Americans and Russians among her pupils she also taught free classes in orphanages.
The classes began with 20 minutes of relaxation in shavasana, followed by bridge, shoulderstand, gentle backbends such as cobra pose, lotus position (including leaning right forward into Yogamudrasana), and headstand, against a wall for beginners. 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, wife of the nationalist leader and a new yoga enthusiast. When she was leaving India to follow her husband to China, Krishnamacharya asked her to work as a yoga teacher there. Pattabhi Jois who went on to become world-famous yoga teachers. She was the first foreign woman among his students in the yogasala in the Mysore Palace, studying alongside B.K.S Iyengar and K. She was obliged to keep to the strict vegetarian diet and the monastic hours, with lights out at 9pm. She asked to study with him in 1938, he reluctantly accepted her as a student after his employer, the Maharaja of Mysore, spoke on her behalf. 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 1930, she married Jan Strakaty, a commercial attache to the Czechoslovak consulate in Bombay, and for some years lived as a society hostess there. 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. She soon went back to India, selling her valuables to pay for the trip. She came back three months later, a changed woman, speaking only of India, and returned Bolm's engagement ring. She set off on 17 November 1927, crossing India from south to north, wearing a sari for the first time, sitting on the floor and eating with her fingers. In Berlin, she worked as an actor in The Blue Bird, touring Europe, and accepted a proposal of marriage from the banker Herman Bolm, on condition she could first go to India he agreed and paid for the trip. From that day everything in me turned upside down." Career India ĭevi's fascination with India began at 15 when she read a book by poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and a yoga instruction book by Yogi Ramacharaka. She later said "It seemed to me, I was hearing a forgotten call, familiar, but distant. In 1926, attracted by a notice in a bookshop in Tallinn, she went to hear Jiddu Krishnamurti at a Theosophical Society meeting in the Netherlands his chanting of Sanskrit mantras around a campfire had a powerful effect on her. 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. In the Russian Revolution, her father served as an army officer and went missing in action in the civil war. She briefly attended drama school in Moscow. She went to high school in Saint Petersburg, graduating with a gold medal in 1917. Eugenie was given a Russian Orthodox baptism. Later in life she lived in Latin America and India.Įugenie "Zhenya" Peterson was born on in Riga in the Russian Empire (now Latvia), to Vasili Peterson, a Swedish bank director, and Aleksandra Labunskaya, a Russian noblewoman who acted at the Nezlobina Theatre. Her biographer Michelle Goldberg wrote that Devi "planted the seeds for the yoga boom of the 1990s". Her popularization of yoga in America through her many celebrity pupils in Hollywood, and her books advocating yoga for stress relief, earned her the nickname "first lady of yoga". Moving to China, she taught the first yoga classes in that country at Madame Chiang Kai-shek's house. She was the first woman to study under the yoga guru Krishnamacharya at the Mysore Palace, alongside B.K.S Iyengar and K. She went to India in her twenties, becoming a film star there and acquiring the stage name Indra Devi. Eugenie Peterson ( Latvian: Eiženija Pētersone, Russian: Евгения Васильевна Петерсон 22 May, 1899 – 25 April 2002), known as Indra Devi, was a pioneering teacher of yoga as exercise, and an early disciple of the "father of modern yoga", Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.
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