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| | [Deathwatch] Indra Devi, "first lady of yoga", 102 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Born in Riga in 1899, Devi went to India in 1927 drawn by its spirituality and 10 years later was admitted to an ashram to study a discipline previously almost closed to women. |
 | | She opened the first U.S. yoga studio in California in 1947 and introduced the ancient Oriental practice, which blends strenuous physical stretches with spiritual balance, to stars like Gloria Swanson and violinist Yehudi Menuhin. |
 | | She went in peace, without suffering at all," said David Lifar, head of the Indra Devi Foundation in Buenos Aires which she set up on moving to Argentina in 1985. |
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