With great sorrow, we announce that Václav Hošek, long-year teacher and student of yoga and yoga and its great exponent in the Czech Republic. Vaclav was practicing yoga for more than 50 years and during that time, not only that he lead a lot of classes and brought a lot of people to yoga study, but he also made a lot of effort to support yoga education. He started his school of yoga in Plzeň in the year 1992, he participated in establishing Yoga union under ČASPV and later he did a lot of work to establish Czech association of Iyengar yoga. During his life, he was always willing to study and his teachers were among others Dr. Mukund Bhole, swami Maheswarananda, and most important Gabriella Giubilaro and B.K.S. Iyengar, whose teaching was most dear to him. He dedicated last 25 years to Iyengar yoga. He helped to organize some of the first Iyengar yoga workshops in our republic and later did a lot of work to establish our association and supported its work all the time.

He left his body suddenly, on 27. February 2018, at age of unfinished 76 years.

Om tryambakam yajāmahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam
urvā rukamiva bandhanān mrtyor muksīya mā’mrtāt