K. Pattabhi Jois popularized the traditional yoga system known as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. At the age of twelve, Pattabhi Jois started studying yoga in 1927. By 1948, he had founded a school to teach a particular kind of yoga called Ashtanga (Sanskrit meaning “eight-limbed”) Yoga. The emphasis on viṅyāsa, or a dynamic connecting pos