Selvarajan Yesudian or Selva Raja Yesudian (February 25, 1916, in Madras – October 26, 1998, in Zürich) was a yoga teacher and author. He is in particular known for a book he co-authored with Elisabeth Haich: Sport és Jóga - Budapest 1941, Sport und Yoga 1949, in English-speaking countries released as Yoga and Health.[1][2]

Life

Selvarajan Yesudian arrived in Hungary from India in 1937 and founded Europe's first yoga school in Budapest with Elisabeth Haich (in Hungarian: Haich Erzsébet) in 1941. After World War II in 1948 they had to close their school, when the communist regime came to power in the Soviet occupied country, and fled to Switzerland. They settled and founded their new yoga school there, which became well known and had an international reputation in the following decades; many yoga students from Germany visited him to learn about yoga.[3][4][5]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Selvarajan Yesudian". librarything.com. Selvarajan Yesudian - Author of Sport und Yoga
  2. ^ Cousins, Granville. "How I Came to Yoga". yogawithgranville.com. The first major breakthrough came when I practiced from a book called "Yoga and Health" by Selvarajan Yesudian and Elizabeth Haich.
  3. ^ Jean-François Mayer, Les nouvelles voies spirituelles : enquête sur la religiosité parallèle en Suisse, Nationales Forschungsprogramm 21--Kulturelle Vielfalt und Nationale Identität, L'Âge d'Homme, 1993, ISBN 2-8251-0412-4, ISBN 978-2-8251-0412-5, pp. 195-196.
  4. ^ Howard, Kathryn. "How Eugenia Basilewsky Changed My Life". allgoodthings.com. He was the co-founder of Europe's oldest Yoga school there, the Elisabeth Haich Institute.
  5. ^ Strauss, Sarah (2005). Positioning Yoga: balancing acts across cultures. Berg. pp. 110–112. ISBN 978-1-85973-739-2. OCLC 290552174.

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