{"id":820,"date":"2012-09-27T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/?p=820"},"modified":"2012-10-26T00:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:56:51","slug":"yoga-documentary-breath-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/2012\/09\/27\/yoga-documentary-breath-of-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary: “Breath of the Gods”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Breath of the Gods – A Journey to the Origins of Modern Yoga”<\/h4>\n

German Version DVD Release: September 26th!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Breath of the Gods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From a letter by the director to an Indian friend:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you step onto your mat, you enter a world within the world \u2013 as the charcoal rectangle with Peter Brook. Everything that we see in my film, everything that is done in Yoga altogether, can happen on this mat.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Jan\u00a0Schmidt-Garre<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good news for everyone who loves documentaries and yoga!
\nBreath of the Gods<\/a>, a\u00a0film about the roots of modern Yoga has come to our cinemas and is now on DVD. Yoga.in was invited to the Berlin premiere this past spring. It was a pleasure to watch the film and talk to Srishubha, T. Krishnamacharya\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n

The German producer Jan Schmidt-Garre\u00a0was inspired to make the film by two events:<\/p>\n

1) He visited a yoga class and felt the \u201cirresistible\u201c connection of body and mind.<\/p>\n

2) He learned about the central role of T. Krishnamacharya, the \u201cfather of modern yoga,\u201d in the development of yoga as we know it today. While Krishnamacharya himself died in 1989 at the cheerful age of 101 years, his major disciples Pattabhi Jois (Ashtanga yoga) and B.K.S. Iyengar (Iyengar Yoga) were still alive and teaching. What an amazing opportunity!<\/p>\n

Over a period of 5 years Jan and his team visited India several times. Krishnamacharya\u2019s son and daughter, T.K. Sribhashyam and Srishubha, became a vital part of the film which includes wonderful old footage rediscovered during production.<\/p>\n

The German version DVD release is on September 26th and you can get it on Amazon.de<\/a>. Thanks to its success in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with over 90,000 viewers, it will also be released in English in theaters in the UK and the US this winter and out on DVD in the Spring of 2013.<\/p>\n

For more information and to view the trailer, visit the English Version<\/a> of their website or the German Version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We say: Two Thumbs up!<\/p>\n

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