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Russian actress yoga news : Originally Russian actress Yevgenia Peterson connected with India through yoga. Not only this, she contributed in connecting Russia and Western countries through yoga by introducing yoga in India. Yevgenia Peterson taught yoga to many Hollywood actresses and actors of her time.
Reading about Tagore increased my interest in India
Yevgenia was born in 1899 in Riga, Latvia. At that time Latvia was part of the Russian Empire. Yevgenia became interested in India after reading about Rabindranath Tagore while studying in school. She wanted to study theater in Moscow (Moscow) at the age of 18. However, the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 forced her to leave Russia with her parents and move to Berlin. Yevgenia Peterson became known as an actress and dancer in Germany.
He also went to China to propagate Indian Yoga.
She came to India in 1927 and performed dance programmes under the name Indradevi. After this, Indradevi also worked with Prithviraj Kapoor in Sher-e-Arab. At that time, a yoga school was run in India under the presence of the royal family of Mysore. Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, famous as the father of modern yoga, was her guru.
He was also the guru of the famous yoga guru KS Iyengar. Indradevi trained in yoga for a year near Tirumalai on the recommendation of the Mysore Raj. When her husband, who lived in Czechoslovakia, came to China, Indradevi also moved to China. Indradevi taught yoga to many famous rich people in China, such as Chiang Kai-shek. During World War II, Indradevi returned to India from China and wrote a book called Yoga for You.
Taught yoga to many Hollywood actresses like Greta Garbo and Gloria
After her husband's death, Indra Devi came to America as a yoga instructor. At that time, she taught yoga to many Hollywood actresses like Greta Garbo and Gloria. Many Hollywood artists used to come to her to learn yoga. Violinist and orchestra conductor Yehudi Menuhin also became her disciple.
In the 1960s, Indra Devi (Yevgenia Peterson) introduced yoga to the communist rulers of her native Russia, however, the communist rulers of Russia had little interest in yoga. She left Russia in 1982 and spent the rest of her life in Argentina. She died in 2002 in Buenos Aires at the age of 102.