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Indra Devi decided to change her life following the unexpected death of her husband. With eight years of teaching experience, the renowned guru left for the United States in 1947. A year later she opened a yoga studio in Hollywood. Indra Devi gradually developed a style of yoga adapted for the West, including yoga asana, most suitable for white people, special breathing techniques and diets. At the same time, Indra Devi always stressed that her method relied on the classical yoga of Patanjali.
She taught Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe.
In 1953 Indra married again, this time marrying the well-known doctor Siegfried Knauer. In the mid-1950s she was granted American citizenship and put her Indra Devi pseudonym in her new passport.
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