Selvarajan Yesudian

Selva Yesudian ( born February 25, 1916 in Sholinghur, Madras, † October 26, 1998 in Zurich ) was a native of South India Yoga teacher in Switzerland. He was one of the first who taught yoga in Europe and, together with Elisabeth Haich in Switzerland several yoga schools.

Life

Madras

Selva Yesudian was born on 25 February 1916 at the place Sholinghur north of Madras in present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His parents were successful doctors in Madras. As a boy, he was very weak and went through several serious childhood diseases. After pneumonia at age fifteen, he was so weak that he could no longer play with his peers. In his father's library he found books on yoga and then began secretly practicing Hatha Yoga, whereupon his body but was still sicker. When he later on a stroll in the countryside encountered a yoga class in a little mango grove, he spoke to the teacher and was accepted as a student. Under the guidance of the teacher he recovered quickly and Selva Yesudian developed a healthy athletic body.

Hungary

Shortly after the death of his father Selva Yesudian went to study European medicine in 1936 to Budapest. He was asked to keep at the University lectures on Indian health system and yoga. Then he learned the Hungarian artist Elisabeth Haich know that was very well read in Indian philosophy. Both teamed up and in 1939 a yoga school was opened in the studio of Elisabeth Haich. 1941 published Selva Yesudian began his book "Sport és jóga " [ Yoga and Health ], after which flourish his school.

Switzerland

After 1948, the communist regime had the yoga school in Budapest closed, managed Selva Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich to Zurich to escape, to go with the aim to California. At the request of a former resident in Switzerland pupils they decided to remain in Switzerland, and opened 1949-1955 in several Swiss cities Yoga schools, while in Ponte Tresa in Ticino and in the Ligurian Diano Marina a yoga summer school.

As of 1990, Selva Yesudian began to withdraw and handed over the reins of his yoga school in St. Gallen his longtime student Rolf home. Selva Yesudian died on 26 October 1998 in Zurich.

Work

Selva Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich were instrumental in the dissemination and popularization of yoga in Europe. They founded several schools of yoga, so in Budapest ( 1939-1948 ) and in Switzerland from 1948 in Aarau, Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lucerne, Ponte Tresa, St. Gallen and Zurich; also in the Ligurian Diano Marina still a yoga summer school. Selva Yesudian not only gave yoga lessons but also gave several lectures and offered counseling. He has published several books on yoga, today re-laid again and again. The spiritual role models Yesudians were Ramana Maharshi and Vivekananda.

Yesudians Yoga

Selva Rajan Yesudians yoga lessons were well structured. A short meditation in sitting posture was followed by a small lecture on yoga philosophy. Then came breathing exercises (pranayama ), and then yoga postures ( asana ). After a short rest again was followed by a meditation and at the end of a deep relaxation. The exercises were performed as relaxed as possible with their eyes closed to increase the concentration to increase awareness and improve the Prana. Autosuggestion and as reinforcement served to promote the progress of students and to train positive mindset. After the lesson, the students were still exercises at home.

Books by Selva Yesudian

Most books published Selva Yesudian together with Elisabeth Haich as co-author:

  • Selva Yesudian: Sport és jóga; Budapest ( in Hungarian)
  • Selva Yesudian: Sport Yoga; thielle 1949
  • Selva Yesudian: Yoga in the two worlds; thielle 1951
  • Selva Yesudian: Yoga in today's struggle for survival; thielle 1954
  • Selva Yesudian: The day with yoga; Stuttgart 1959
  • Selva Yesudian: self-education through yoga; thielle 1961
  • Selva Yesudian: Yoga and destiny; Stuttgart 1962
  • Selva Yesudian: Raja - Yoga; thielle 1966
  • Selva Yesudian: Hatha Yoga; Munich, Engelberg 1971
  • Selva Yesudian: Stand up and be free: Thoughts and talks on yoga; Ergolding 1989

Secondary literature

  • Mathias Tietke: The tree of yoga. Stuttgart 2007, ISBN. 978-3-89620-199-7.
  • Wilfried Huchzermeyer: The Yoga Dictionary. Karlsruhe 2007 ISBN. 978-3-931172-25-1.
  • Susy Home: Yoga instruction and practice: Yoga by Yesudian - Haich. Rorschacherberg 2009 ISBN. 3-9520918-5-5.
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