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  Indra Devi - First Lady of Yoga
In 1985 she moved to Argentina, where she set up the Indra Devi Foundation (the URL of its website, which is in Spanish, is http://fundacion-indra-devi.org/).
Indra Devi practiced all that she taught, and as a result she remained active and vital well into her 90s, and even after she passed the century mark, her energy was amazing.
Indra Devi viewed death as fearlessly as she lived her life, and the world she left is very much richer for the gift of her presence.
www.allspiritfitness.com /library/IndraDevi.shtml   (684 words)

  
 Hinduism Today | Indra Devi | October, November, December, 2002
Indra Devi was one of the greatest spiritual propagators in the West.
Indra Devi was born in the Russia of the Czars, on May 12, 1899.
Indra Devi, also once an actress, felt an immediate empathy and through asanas and meditation was able to help her young disciple attain better equilibrium.
www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/2002/10-12/52-54_indradevi.shtml   (1770 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Yoga for You: Books: Indra Devi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Indra Devi's followers called her Mataji, a rare and well-deserved honor for a woman who exemplified Yoga's principles with her love, light, and a liveliness that lasted nearly all of her 102 years.
The woman who would become Indra Devi was born Eugenie Peterson on May 12, 1899, in Riga, Russia.
After the end of World War II, Indra Devi continued studying Yoga in the Himalayas and after the death of her husband, her travels took her to the United States.
www.amazon.ca /Yoga-You-Indra-Devi/dp/1586851411   (637 words)

  
 Hinduism Today | Nov 1999
Along her way through life Indra Devi has outlived two husbands (but had no children), become fluent in twelve languages (she's still good at five), accumulated more frequent flyer miles than a corporate executive and, at 100, slowed down only a bit.
Indra Devi--Mataji as she is known--was remarkably inventive in every class I had with her.
For the role she was given the name "Indra Devi," which she used for the rest of her life.
www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1999/11/1999-11-09.shtml   (1030 words)

  
 THE DEVI
Then began a battle between that Devi and the enemies of the devas, in which the quarters of the sky were illumined by the weapons and arms hurled diversely.
Then the Devi killed hundreds of asuras with her trident, club, showers of spears, swords and the like, and threw down others who were stupefied by the noise of her bell; and binding others with her noose, she dragged them on the ground.
Of yore Indra's (sovereignty) over the three worlds and his portions of the sacrifices were taken away by the asuras, Sumbha and Nisumbha, by force of their pride and strength.
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 Yoga Journal : Wisdom : Yoga tradition and philosophy, information on yoga's pioneers, wisdom from spiritual teacher ...
Often called the First Lady of Yoga, Devi was instrumental in the global diffusion of the practice.
Indra Devi, or Mataji, was often called "The First Lady of Yoga." In 1937, Krishnamacharya admitted her into his school—making her the first woman chela (pupil) and the first Western woman ever at an Indian ashram—and personally supervised her asana and pranayama training.
In 1982, Devi was invited by a group of Sai Baba devotees to teach in Argentina and did so for 15 years.
www.yogajournal.com /wisdom/331_1.cfm?ctsrc=sectnav   (432 words)

  
 Yoga Teachers of Colorado
Indra Devi gave this diet to me during the Unity in Yoga's Peace Conference in Jerusalem January, 1995.
Mataji Indra Devi is called the "mother of Yoga" as she was the first woman teacher in the western hemisphere.
Currently 102 years young and quite healthy, she is living in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she has over 2000 weekly students at her 6 major centers.
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 Indra Devi Obituary
Indra Devi, Yoga Teacher to the Stars, Dies at 102
Indra Devi, the daughter of European nobility who introduced the ancient discipline of yoga to the Kremlin leadership, Hollywood stars like Gloria Swanson and even students in India, died on Thursday in Buenos Aires.
Under the stage name Indra Devi, she became a rising star in Indian films.
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 World Vegetarian Congress 1957
One of the leading personalities who has made a deep study of yogas is Indra Devi.
Since 1947 Indra Devi has been living in California and has a studio whore she conducts classes in Hatha yoga.
Among Indra Devi's pupils are Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson.
www.ivu.org /congress/wvc57/souvenir/devi.html   (832 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Indra Devi": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Geo's Journey Indra Devi was the first woman to study with the renowned Sri Krishnamacharya, the teacher of many of those who have...
One such teacher was the late Indra Devi, a tiny parakeet of a woman with a heart as wide as the world.
Indra Devi, one of hatha yoga's most respected modern teachers, calls yoga a science that gives a human being the knowledge of...
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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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 YogaNews
Indra Devi died at the age of 102 on April 21, in Buenos Aires.
She became the first female student of T. Krishnamacharya, in the early 1930s, when yoga was considered to be a strictly masculine pursuit.
Indra Devi traveled and taught around the world.
www.yogachicago.com /jul02/news.shtml   (1173 words)

  
 About Yoga For All Bodies
Susan continues to grow in her practice and learning of yoga through a variety of continuing education courses with Roger Cole, Rama Birch, Judith Lasater, and several members of the yoga education society.
Her classes focus on stress relief using the effective, straightforward, and versatile teaching methods of Indra Devi.
Mataji Indra Devi was born in Russia on May 12, 1899.
www.yogaforallbodies.com /about.html   (884 words)

  
 Yoga guru Indra Devi dies at 102 -DAWN - International; April 27, 2002
BUENOS AIRES, April 26: Russian-born Indra Devi, known to followers as the “First Lady of Yoga” who taught Hollywood how to stretch its limbs in the 1940s, died at 102 on Thursday in Argentina, her home for the past 17 years.
The teacher died early in the morning of ailments “brought on by old age.
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.—Reuters
www.dawn.com /2002/04/27/int9.htm   (216 words)

  
 INDRA DEVI Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
INDRA DEVI Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database
Indra Devi (Eugenie Peterson) (1899-2002) was an early disciple of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who herself became a renowned yoga teacher.
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 Textbooks by Indra Devi Petersen Knauer - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Textbooks by Indra Devi Petersen Knauer - Direct Textbook
Renew your life through yoga;: The Indra Devi method for relaxation through rhythmic breathing by Indra Devi Petersen Knauer
Forever young, forever healthy, by Indra Devi Petersen Knauer
www.directtextbook.com /author/indra-devi-petersen-knauer   (198 words)

  
 Madam Indra Deví: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Madam Indra Deví: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
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 Indiaclub.com: Sai Baba and Sai Yoga : Yoga
A magnificent revelation by Sai Baba - and Mataji Indra Devi's lecture on Yoga turns into an expounding of the wondrous Sai Yoga, offering the way to be filled with Love and Light.
Indira Devi also describes her fascinating life experiences living in a rare close proximity with Swami - tours, leelas, materialization of incredible jewelry, a box with an endless supply of vibhuti, out of body consciousness at Shivarathri.
The warmth in this book will touch your heart, the verve and wisdom will inspire and the sheer wonder will take your breath away.
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