Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was Sri T. Krishnamacharya student, a master of southern India yogic tradition.
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois has discovered Yoga Korunta, a text that seems to have been written in 2000 b.c. in a Calcutta’s library.
In 1948 has founded Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, to teach the traditional method described in the ancient texts.
Thanks to him Ashtanga Yoga has been spread troughtout the world; He has taught this ancient and traditional method until the end of his life.
Was usual to say to his students during his conferences: “Practice, practice, 99% of this yoga is practice, 1% is theory”.