Master Strokes

In stock

Free & Quick Delivery Worldwide

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jayadeva Yogendra

Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra was the first born child of Shri Yogendra and Smt Sita Devi Yogendra. He was born in Bombay on 27th April 1929. He commenced his education at a Hindi primary school in Bombay, followed by an English Parsi School and garde college in Gujarat. Then he went to Wilson College in Bombay from where he completed his M.A. in Sanskrit and Prakrut. He stood first in the University and received the Bhagwandas Purshotamdas Prize for Sanskrit. He was also awarded the Hargobin das scholarship for PhD which was conferred upon him in 1955 and since then he is referred to as Dr. Jayadeva. After completing his Ph. D. Dr. Jayadeva worked as a lecture teaching Sanskrit to B. A. students for about on year at the Khalsa College Bombay. After that he has worked ceaselessly at the yoga Institute that was founded by his father. In 1958 he was appointed Principal of The Yoga Institute when the Government of Maharashtra gave special recognition to the Institute as a special teachers training Institute of Yoga and Yoga research. He was master minded many educational and the National centers of Educational Research and Training took his assistance in devising the national Yoga syllabus for schools. He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Yoga which funded a research project highlighting the advantage of Yoga techniques in the treatment of disease. He was a polific writer and has authored several books and edited the mammoth Yoga Encyclopaedia series. He edited Yoga Today Yoga in Modern life, yoga Therapy in Asthma Diabetes and Heart Disease etc. He is at present the Editor of the journal Yoga and Total Health, which were founded in 1933. He is the present Director of the Yoga Institute and past President of the International Board of Yoga. He has endeared himself to thousands of his students by his self-effacing ways and ready guidance. Most of all he inspires all by his purity of life in which he practices what he preaches.

reviews

0 in total

There are no reviews yet.

Bibliographic information

Title
Master Strokes
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8185053650
Length
30p., 12cm.
Subjects