With the Westerners, though, it was a totally different story. It wasn't until the Westerners arrived that Jois became interested in transmitting the teaching authentically. The Westerners were serious about learning; they'd traveled halfway around the world to learn.
DC: Do you think he thought we were more spiritually deprived? Or that we somehow needed more medicine? TM: There's probably something to that.
We were obviously crazy and needed the purifying of the practice a lot, so we got it. You know how Americans are; they tend to be ambitious. When they get into something, they really get into it. DC: The popularity has increased so much TM: Particularly the last five years. For years we were sitting around scratching our heads thinking, "Why aren't more people into this?
DC: Even knowing how demanding it is? TM: Americans can handle rigor. They're probably the hardest working people on the planet. We're driven. So if we can channel that, it's a good thing. DC: Some of you were developing a strong student-teacher relationship with him. TM: For me, that really didn't happen until the first time I went to India. That's the way it is for most people. He doesn't really take you seriously as a student until then. Up until then, I was just "that man.
At that time, he had very few Western students. For a portion of that time, I was the only Western student. For about a month and a half of that time, I was actually living in his home. I had a limited budget, and he was kind enough to offer me a place to stay. DC: What was that like? Were you getting up with him? TM: The room I was staying in was a multi-purpose room.
It was his office. It was also a room where they stored a lot of grain and things. It was also the dressing room for the yoga shala. So I didn't spend a whole lot of time in my room. I would sleep there and get up early so it could be used for everything. Being a non-Brahmin, I wasn't allowed to eat meals with them. Sharath and Shammie, his sister, would come bring my meals up to my room and sit with me.
DC: Was it pretty much he taught you and didn't associate with you otherwise, or was he giving you information beyond the poses? TM: He knows a lot about yoga, but for him to express it in English is difficult. He has many yogic texts committed to memory. He'd go off and start chanting things in Sanskrit. It's wonderful to hear it all, but in terms of the English translation it's somewhat difficult to convey. Occasionally, just in conversation you'll get a tidbit or if you asked the right question, but for the most part it's practice and see what happens.
DC: Did it feel hard for you to be an American off in a strange land? TM: It was great. An incredible experience. I wasn't the only Westerner there. I met Norman Allen there. I had other people to hang out with. It was also really different being one of a few students there getting strong adjustments every day. It was pretty transformative. You'd go into savasana each day at the end, and it would be like being ripped open. I'd lay there and cry for a half hour and then afterwards just feel completely transparent.
You'd walk the streets of India, and it would be like it was moving right through you. DC: Do you think there are any misconceptions about Jois and Ashtanga yoga that could be cleared up?
TM: I think people get stuck in the physicality of the practice. He says things like, "Yoga is 99 percent practice and 1 percent theory. I think it's his belief that practice is designed to be self-teaching. If you do the practice consistently, you, slowly over time, transform. You begin to understand what yoga is from the inside. DC: How long were you practicing with him before he said it was OK for you to teach? He doesn't do that lightly.
TM: No, not at all. Class was a life-altering experience that shifted my perspective degrees in an hour and a half. That kept me coming back. YJ: So you adopted a regular practice? TM: I went to a class three evenings a week, but my work schedule interfered with yoga. So I switched to the swing shift so I could go to the morning class every day. Eight months later, I met Pattabhi Jois.
He made us try hard. We were all terrified of being adjusted and also afraid of being ignored. In I took my first trip to India. I was on a budget, and the Jois family was gracious enough to let me stay in their home. See also Up for Challenge? YJ: What did you learn there? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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