Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev, widely known as Sadhguru, is an Indian guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India. The foundation, established in 1992, operates an ashram and yoga c
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Vasudev with his wife, Vijaykumari
Vasudev travelling with pilgrims
Sun Salutation, also called Surya Namaskar or Salute to the Sun, is a practice in yoga as exercise incorporating a flow sequence of some twelve linked asanas. The asana sequence was first recorded as
Sadhguru
…including to Nepal. Vasudev advocates vegetarianism, but whilst traveling with no vegetarian food sources available, he eats seafood. He practices the Sun Salutation for 40 minutes a day. Vasudev married his wife, Vijaykumari, in 1984. In 1990, Vijaykumari and Jaggi had their only child, Radhe. Vijaykumari died on…
The stages of one form of Surya Namaskar, Salute to the Sun, demonstrated by a class of yoga teachers in training in Goa, India
Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi provided this double-page guide to the Sun Salutation at the back of his 1928 book The Ten-Point Way to Health: Surya Namaskars as well as in the body of the text, stating that it could be removed for use without damaging the text of the book.
Elliott Goldberg called Vishnudevananda's 1960 sequence (positions 5 to 8 shown) in his The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga a "new utilitarian conception of Surya Namaskara", in which he rejected his guru Sivananda's view of it as a health cure.
Sun Salutation at a public yoga event in Katni, India