Pete’s wife, Troi, practiced yoga in Encinitas, California, with one of Pattabhi Jois’s best-known students, Tim Miller. Through Paul’s friendship with self-help master Tony Robbins, the Joneses met Pete Egoscue, who is basically the guru of back pain. “I wish I had photos!” Salima Ruffin said when we three were having coffee at Le Pain Quotidien on Greenwich Avenue. They have four children, all delivered by cesarean section, and by the time her son, Jack, was born, in 1999, she had a blown disk in her back and was numb from the waist down. After a short time on the scene, she met Paul Jones-who was just coming to prominence after making $100 million during the 1987 stock-market crash-and they married in 1988. In 1986, Sonia moved to New York from Australia to further her modeling career. Sonia Jones, as she likes to be called, is devoted to yoga not for the reason most American devotees are-the attainment of physical perfection, with maybe a little spiritual bliss tossed in-but because she thinks it restored her to health. Ruffin likes to say that Sonia is the “Mother Teresa of yoga.” In partnership with Pattabhi Jois’s daughter and grandson and a friend, San Diego-based entrepreneur Salima Ruffin, she’s also launched a Jois line of yoga clothes, and she is setting up charities to bring yoga to everyone, from charter schools in Florida to villages in Africa.
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This will be his wife’s fourth Jois studio, or “shala” in yoga lingo, and that’s only part of her far-flung project. Jones is also a noted philanthropist, the founder of the Robin Hood Foundation, the oh-so-stylish charity for the hedge-fund set. Tudor is one of the oldest and most respected hedge funds-its flagship fund, Tudor BVI Global, has averaged annual gains of 21 percent over its 25-year history, according to The Wall Street Journal-and while very little about it is public, Forbes has estimated Paul Tudor Jones’s net worth at $3.2 billion. The money behind the new studio comes from Sonia Tudor Jones, whose husband, 57-year-old Paul Tudor Jones II, runs the multi-billion-dollar hedge-fund empire Tudor Investment Corp. The studio will bear the name Jois Yoga, in honor of Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois, an eminent yoga teacher whose many students called him Guruji, and whose death on May 18, 2009, occasioned lengthy obituaries in such important newspapers as The New York Times and London’s Guardian. But the old radio station is being completely renovated, no expense spared, and in April it will open its doors as a modern yoga studio-and not the kind with stinky incense and smelly bodies, but rather with space, light, and a stylish boutique. The building is an odd sight because Greenwich Avenue isn’t your average Main Street: lined with exorbitantly expensive stores, it’s the center of this famously moneyed enclave for New York’s financial elite. Sonia has sung on a number of high-profile live tours with James Last, Cliff Richard, Annie Lennox, Chris Rea, Paul Young, and more.Right off Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut, there’s an old, dilapidated building with a leaky roof that once housed a radio station.
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She has been seen on Des O’Connor, GMTV, Richard & Judy, Royal Variety Show, Surprise Surprise and other shows.
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Sonia has featured on TV shows and live concerts. She has been working with The Who, performing ‘Quadrophenia’ in Madison Square, New York, and in Hyde Park for The Prince’s Trust. Sonia has sung backing vocals for some of the world’s principal rock artists and bands, including the Rolling Stones, Cliff Richard, Simple Minds, Chris Rea, Spandau Ballet, Annie Lennox and Mike Oldfield. Other recordings include Dr Pepper, Calgon, Sure, Toys R Us, Insignia, Benson & Hedges, Birds Eye, Omo, Reebok, Cup-a-Soup, Fairview Homes, British Telecom, Nurofen and Nescafe. She is well-known for her vocals on the Peugeot 205 ad ‘Take My Breath Away’. Sonia has a wealth of experience of recording commercials. One of Sonia’s very first lead vocal jobs was singing on the title song for Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ and subsequently ‘The Meaning of Life’. A successful career followed, with appearances at Madison Square Garden, performing with the rock band The Who, and later with many other famous stars. Her singing career started at the age of 16 when she sang the lead vocals for Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’.
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Sonia Jones is a highly experienced singer and she has worked with world-famous artistes from Annie Lennox to the Rolling Stones.