Pa moyo wake wautali, Evgenia Peterson wasintha kwambiri moyo wake kangapo - kuchokera kwa dona wadziko kupita ku mataji, ndiko kuti, "mayi", mphunzitsi wauzimu. Anayenda theka la dziko, ndipo pakati pa anzawo anali akatswiri a ku Hollywood, afilosofi a ku India, ndi atsogoleri a zipani za Soviet. Amadziwa zilankhulo 12 ndipo adawona mayiko atatu kwawo - Russia, komwe adabadwira, India, komwe adabadwiranso komanso komwe moyo wake unawululidwa, ndi Argentina - dziko "lokonda" la Mataji Indra Devi.
Evgenia Peterson, yemwe amadziwika kuti Indra Devi padziko lonse lapansi, adakhala "Woyamba Dona wa yoga", munthu amene adatsegula machitidwe a yogic osati ku Ulaya ndi America kokha, komanso ku USSR.
Evgenia Peterson anabadwira ku Riga mu 1899. Bambo ake ndi mkulu wa banki ya Riga, Swede wobadwa, ndipo amayi ake ndi operetta actress, omwe amakonda kwambiri anthu komanso nyenyezi ya salons zadziko. Bwenzi labwino la Petersons anali woyimba wamkulu dzina lake Aleksandr Vertinsky, yemwe adawona kale "chinthu" cha Evgenia, kupereka kwa iye ndakatulo ya "Mtsikana ndi whims":
“Mtsikana wokonda zizolowezi, mtsikana wokonda kulakalaka.
Mtsikanayo sali "mwanjira ina", osati ngati wina aliyense ... "
Panthawi ya nkhondo yoyamba ya padziko lonse, banja la Evgenia linasamuka ku Riga kupita ku St.
Kumayambiriro kwa zaka za zana la XNUMX inali nthawi yakusintha osati pazandale zokha, komanso nthawi yakusintha kwadziko lonse lapansi pakuzindikira kwaumunthu. Ma salons a mizimu amawonekera, mabuku a esoteric ali odziwika bwino, achinyamata amawerenga ntchito za Blavatsky.
Young Evgenia Peterson analinso chimodzimodzi. Mwanjira ina, buku lakuti Fourteen Lessons on Yoga Philosophy and Scientific Occultism linagwera m’manja mwake, limene analiŵerenga ndi mpweya umodzi. Chisankho chomwe chinabadwa pamutu wa mtsikana wokonda kwambiri chinali chomveka komanso cholondola - ayenera kupita ku India. Komabe, nkhondo, kusintha ndi kusamuka ku Germany kuyika pambali zolinga zake kwa nthawi yaitali.
Ku Germany, Eugenia akuwala mu gulu la Diaghilev Theatre, ndipo tsiku lina paulendo ku Tallinn mu 1926, akuyenda mumzindawu, akuwona sitolo yaing'ono ya mabuku yotchedwa Theosophical Literature. Kumeneko amamva kuti msonkhano wa Anna Besant Theosophical Society udzachitika posachedwa ku Holland, ndipo mmodzi mwa alendo adzakhala Jiddu Krishnamurti, woimba wotchuka wa ku India ndi filosofi.
Anthu oposa 4000 anasonkhana pa msonkhano wachigawo m’tauni ya Dutch ya Oman. Mikhalidwe inali Spartan - malo amsasa, zakudya zamasamba. Poyamba, Eugenia adawona zonsezi ngati ulendo woseketsa, koma usiku womwe Krishnamurti adayimba nyimbo zachiSanskrit zidasintha kwambiri moyo wake.
Atakhala m’ndende kwa mlungu umodzi, Peterson anabwerera ku Germany ali ndi mtima wofunitsitsa kusintha moyo wake. Adapanga chikalata kwa bwenzi lake, Bolm wakubanki, kuti mphatsoyo ikhale ulendo wopita ku India. Iye akuvomereza, kuganiza kuti ichi ndi chikhumbo chabe cha mtsikana wamng'ono, ndipo Evgenia akuchoka kumeneko kwa miyezi itatu. Atapita ku India kuchokera kumwera kupita kumpoto, atabwerera ku Germany, amakana Bolm ndikumubwezera mpheteyo.
Akusiya chilichonse ndikugulitsa ubweya wake wochititsa chidwi ndi zodzikongoletsera, akunyamuka kupita kudziko lakwawo lauzimu latsopano.
Kumeneko amalankhulana ndi Mahatma Gandhi, wolemba ndakatulo Rabindranath Tagore, ndipo ndi Jawaharlal Nehru anali ndi ubwenzi wolimba kwa zaka zambiri, pafupifupi kugwa m'chikondi.
Evgenia akufuna kudziwana bwino ndi India momwe angathere, amapita ku maphunziro a kuvina kwakachisi kuchokera kwa ovina otchuka kwambiri, ndipo amaphunzira yoga ku Bombay. Komabe, sangaiwale luso lake lochita masewera - wotsogolera wotchuka Bhagwati Mishra akumuitana kuti achite nawo filimuyo "Arab Knight", makamaka yomwe amasankha dzina loti Indra Devi - "mulungu wamkazi wakumwamba".
Adachita nawo mafilimu angapo a Bollywood, kenako - mosayembekezereka kwa iyemwini - adavomera kukwatiwa ndi kazembe waku Czech Jan Strakati. Choncho Evgenia Peterson kamodzi kachiwiri kusintha kwambiri moyo wake, kukhala dona dziko.
Kale monga mkazi wa kazembe, amasunga salon, yomwe ikuyamba kutchuka kwambiri ndi gulu la atsamunda. Madyerero osatha, madyerero, ma soirees amatopetsa Madame Strakati, ndipo akudzifunsa kuti: kodi uwu ndi moyo ku India umene mwana womaliza maphunziro a masewera olimbitsa thupi a Zhenya analota? Pakubwera nthawi ya kukhumudwa, komwe amawona njira imodzi yotulukira - yoga.
Kuyamba kuphunzira ku Yoga Institute ku Bombay, Indra Devi amakumana ndi Maharaja waku Mysore kumeneko, yemwe amamuwonetsa Guru Krishnamacharya. - woyambitsa Ashtanga yoga, imodzi mwamayendedwe otchuka masiku ano.
Ophunzira a guru anali anyamata okha ochokera ku gulu lankhondo, omwe adawapangira ndondomeko yokhazikika ya tsiku ndi tsiku: kukana zakudya "zakufa", kudzuka koyambirira ndi kutha, kuchita bwino, moyo wodziletsa.
Kwa nthawi yayitali, mkuluyo sanafune kulola mkazi, ndipo makamaka mlendo, kusukulu yake, koma mkazi wamakani wa kazembeyo adakwaniritsa cholinga chake - adakhala wophunzira wake, koma Krishnamacharya sanafune kumupatsa. kuvomereza. Poyamba, Indra anali wovuta kwambiri, makamaka popeza mphunzitsiyo ankamukayikira ndipo sankamuthandiza. Koma mwamuna wake atasamutsidwa kukagwira ntchito ku Shanghai, Indra Devi amalandila mdalitso kuchokera kwa mphunzitsiyo kuti azichita zodziyimira pawokha.
Mu Shanghai, iye, kale mu udindo wa "mataji", amatsegula sukulu yake yoyamba, ndikupempha thandizo kwa mkazi wa Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling, wokonda kwambiri yoga.
Pambuyo pa Nkhondo Yachiwiri Yapadziko Lonse, Indra Devi amapita ku Himalaya, komwe amakulitsa luso lake ndikulemba buku lake loyamba, Yoga, lomwe lidzasindikizidwa mu 1948.
Pambuyo pa imfa yosayembekezereka ya mwamuna wake, mataji amasinthanso moyo wake - amagulitsa katundu wake ndikusamukira ku California. Kumeneko amapeza malo achonde chifukwa cha ntchito zake - amatsegula sukulu yophunzira ndi nyenyezi zoterezi za "Golden Age of Hollywood" monga Greta Garbo, Yul Brynner, Gloria Swenson. Indra Devi anathandizidwa makamaka ndi Elizabeth Arden, mtsogoleri wa cosmetology empire.
Njira ya Devi idasinthidwa kwambiri ndi thupi la ku Europe, ndipo idatengera mtundu wakale wa yoga wa sage Patanjali, yemwe amakhala m'zaka za zana la XNUMX BC.
Mataji adalimbikitsanso yoga pakati pa anthu wamba., pokhala ndi ma asanas omwe amatha kuchitidwa mosavuta kunyumba kuti athetse nkhawa pambuyo pa ntchito ya tsiku lovuta.
Indra Devi anakwatira kachiwiri mu 1953 - kwa dokotala wotchuka ndi waumunthu Siegfried Knauer, yemwe anakhala dzanja lake lamanja kwa zaka zambiri.
M'zaka za m'ma 1960, atolankhani aku Western adalemba zambiri za Indra Devi ngati yogi wolimba mtima yemwe adatsegula yoga kudziko lotsekedwa lachikominisi. Amapita ku USSR, amakumana ndi akuluakulu a chipani. Komabe, ulendo woyamba ku dziko lawo la mbiriyakale umangokhumudwitsa - yoga imakhalabe ku USSR chipembedzo chodabwitsa cha Kum'mawa, chosavomerezeka kudziko lomwe lili ndi tsogolo labwino.
M'zaka za m'ma 90, mwamuna wake atamwalira, akuchoka ku International Training Center for Yoga Teachers ku Mexico, amapita ku Argentina ndi maphunziro ndi masemina ndipo amayamba kukondana ndi Buenos Aires. Kotero mataji amapeza dziko lachitatu, "dziko laubwenzi", monga momwe amatchulira - Argentina. Izi zikutsatiridwa ndi ulendo wa mayiko a Latin America, m'madera onse omwe mayi wachikulire kwambiri amatsogolera maphunziro awiri a yoga ndipo amatsutsa aliyense ndi chiyembekezo chake chosatha komanso mphamvu zabwino.
Mu May 1990, Indra Devi anapita ku USSR kachiwiri.kumene yoga yasiya kukhala yosaloledwa. Ulendowu unali wopindulitsa kwambiri: wotsogolera pulogalamu yotchuka ya "perestroika" "Isanafike pakati pausiku" Vladimir Molchanov amamuitana kuti apite. Indra Devi amatha kuyendera dziko lake loyamba - amapita ku Riga. Mataji amabwera ku Russia kawiri kawiri ndi maphunziro kale - mu 1992 pakuitana kwa Komiti ya Olimpiki ndi 1994 mothandizidwa ndi kazembe wa Argentina ku Russia.
Mpaka kumapeto kwa moyo wake, Indra Devi adasungabe malingaliro omveka bwino, kukumbukira bwino komanso magwiridwe antchito odabwitsa, Maziko ake adathandizira kufalikira ndi kutchuka kwa machitidwe a yoga padziko lonse lapansi. Pafupifupi anthu 3000 adapezekapo mzaka zake zana, aliyense wa iwo adathokoza mataji chifukwa cha kusintha komwe yoga idabweretsa pamoyo wake.
Komabe, m’chaka cha 2002, thanzi la mayi wachikulireyo linafika poipa kwambiri. Anamwalira ali ndi zaka 103 ku Argentina.
Nkhaniyi inakonzedwa ndi Lilia Ostapenko.