CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Diya TV) – Sharath Jois, the world-renowned Ashtanga yoga teacher and grandson of Ashtanga founder K. Pattabhi Jois, died on November 11 from a heart attack near the University of Virginia where he was teaching. Jois was 53 years old and in Charlottesville as part of a U.S.-wide teaching tour, having led a seminar at the university earlier in the day. According to John Bultman, head of the university’s yoga program, it appeared in *The New York Times*.