About Master DeRose

Master DeRose is one of the most respected comteporary Master of Yôga, he has been practcing and teaching Ancient Yôga for almost 50 years. He systematized the Dakshinacharatantrika-Nirishwarasamkhya Yôga and was praised by many Masters of Yôga in India, where he traveled extensively for 24 yers in a row. Here you can find a small part of his biography.

In 1960, the youngest Yôga teacher in Brazil appeared. It was DeRose, then at the age of sixteen, who had started to teach in a well-know philosophical society. In 1964, he founded the Brazilian Institute of Yôga.

In 1969, he published the first book “Prontuário de Yôga Antigo” (The Ancient Yôga Shastra), which was praised by Ravi Shankar himself, by Mistress Chiang Sing, and by other authorities on Yôga.

In 1975, already recognized as a sincere Prof., he gained support to found National Union of Yôga, the first entity to congregate instructors and schools of all modalities of Yôga without discrimination. It was the National Union of Yôga that unleashed the movement for union, ethics, and mutual respect among the professionals in this area of teaching. Since then, the Union has grown substantially and today is made up of hundreds of schools throughout virtually the entire country of Brazil as well as in other countries of Latin America and Europe (including the UK, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy France, and others).

In 1978, DeRose led the campaign for creating and disseminating the first legislative act for regulating the profession of Yôga, which resulted in an intense mobilization of individuals and in serious debates throughout the country. In the 1970´s, he also introduced the University Extension Courses for the Formal Education of Yôga Instructors in virtually every State, Federal, and Catholic University in Brazil. Later, in 1980, he began to give courses in India and to teach Yôga instructors in Europe.

Two years later, in 1982, he organized the First Brazilian Congress of Yôga and published the first book written specifically for the guidance of Yôga Instructors, “Guide for the Yôga Instructor”) as well as the first Brazilian translation of the “Yôga Sútra of Pátañjali”, the most important book of Classic Yôga. Unfortunately, the more he stood out, the more he became target of a ruthless persecution promoted by less honest competitors who felt harmed by the clarification campaign promoted by Prof. DeRose, a campaign that made more difficult the cons of the conmen.

In 1994, after 20 years of trips to India, he founded the “Primeira Universidade de Yôga do Brasil” (“First Brazilian University of Yôga”) and the “Universidade Internacional de Yôga” (“International Yôga University”), with schools in Portugal, Argentina, France and other countries). In 1997, Prof. DeRose launched the foundations of the “Federal Yôga Council” and the “National Yôga Professors Union”. Celebrating forty years as a teacher in the year 2000, he received, in both 2001 and 2002, the recognition and title of “Master in Yôga” and “Notorious Knowledge in Yôga” from FATEA – Faculdades Integradas Teresa d´Ávila (São Paulo), from the Universidade do Porto (Portugal), from the Universidade de Cruz Alta (Rio Grande do Sul), Universidade Estácio de Sá (Minas Gerais), from the Municipal Assembly of Curitiba (Paraná), and from the "Brazilian Culture and Integration Society”, which also granted him a “Comenda”.

In 2003, he received the title of "Comendador" from “Brazilian Academy of Art, Culture and History”. By law, in the States of Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, Ceara and others, Prof. DeRose´s birthday has been decreed as Yôga Day.