Released on the occasion of the Pāduka Pratiṣṭhā of Sri T Krishnamacharya on 15th March 1991 by the KYM.
Category Archives: Views around the Source
A Prāṇāyāma Practice that was passed onto me many decades ago as……
A Prāṇāyāma Practice passed onto me many decades ago as a Pakkā (Pukka) teaching from Pattabhi Jois:
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Yoga and the 21st Century – Interview with TKV Desikachar May 1999
YOGA AND THE 21st CENTURY
TKV Desikachar was in Narbonne, in the South of France, for a symposium on “Yoga and the XXIst Century” during May 1999. The purpose of the symposium was to consider the role of yoga for the coming century in the three fields of Health, Psychology and Spirituality.
The following interview is an introductory presentation.
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Relationships are going to be very important……
“Relationships
are
going
to
be
very
important.
This
means
that
a
teacher
has
to
be
very
careful,
because
the
moment
a
student
likes
a teacher,
there
is
a
risk
that
the
teacher
will
be
considered
as
their
husband,
or
wife,
or
father,
or
guru,
or
whatever.
”
- TKV Desikachar Narbonne May 1999
Download PDF of Interview with TKV Desikachar on Yoga in the fields of Health, Psychology and Spirituality.
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Yoga and modern medicine – Dr Uma Krishnaswamy talks to TKV Desikachar.
Yoga and modern medicine - A Dialogue:
Dr Uma Krishnaswamy talks to TKV Desikachar.
Special issue with the Sunday Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Well-being : March 12, 2000
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Yoga no better than stretching for bad backs
Yoga no better than stretching for bad backs
Yoga is no more effective at relieving back pain than doing stretches, a study has found.
“I obviously appreciate that the Yoga methodology used in the study is the viniyoga of Yoga.
However I feel what it is being missed is that the very nature of the word viniyoga is the personalised application of Yoga according to each person’s story and their current health and life situation.
For this to work the meeting has to be just one teacher and one student, which, from all the evidence, was Krishnamacharya’s priority aside from specific group situations such as teaching children Āsana or studying Yoga philosophy.”
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AG Mohan on Krishnamacharya’s approach to Śīrṣāsana.
AG Mohan on Krishnamacharya’s approach to Śīrṣāsana. Also a downloadable PDF extracted and developed from the Yoga Makaranda on Āsana practice, especially variations around Viparīta Karaṇī (here as Śīrṣāsana)
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AG Mohan on Krishnamacharya’s Vaiṣṇavite commentary on the Yoga Sūtra.
Vedavallī, T Krishnamacharya’s commentary on the Yoga Sūtra, looking at the text from his personal Vaiṣṇavite viewpoint of Viśiṣṭādvaita or qualified non-dualism (One of the three primary schools of Vedānta).
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On Yoga and Health in the KYM with TKV Desikachar
Whilst living in Chennai through 1980 I recorded a video of an Indian TV programme about the work of the KYM in the field of Yoga and Health. Recently I had the video cassette digitalised and shared it as an online downloadable with students.
From here it has made its way onto YouTube and open source viewing.
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Yoga Makaranda (Part 2) – Sri T Krishnamacharya
Download “Yoga Makaranda (Part 2)” by Sri T. Krishnamacharya from:http://www.svastha.net/resources
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Huge variety of Krishnamacharya`s teachings
“Huge variety of Krishnamacharya`s teachings”
Srivatsa Ramaswami (born 1939 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India) was a student of Shri T Krishnamacharya and studied under him for 33 years, from 1955 until 1988 shortly before Krishnamacharya’s passing.
He is Krishnamacharya’s longest-standing student outside of Krishnamacharya’s immediate family.
Нe currently lives and teaches in the U.S.
- Interview with Srivatsa Ramaswami by Yuri Sharonin of Wild Yogi
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A Yoga Practice given to TKV Desikachar when 25 years old……
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This picture shows BKS Iyengar demonstrating Āsana at an event……
This picture shows BKS Iyengar demonstrating Āsana at an event in Chennai in June 1980 where he was invited to give a Yoga lecture and Āsana demonstration in a tribute to his Guru T Krishnamacharya. I remember he introduced his presentation with the words “I am an artist and I am going to show you my art”.
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This picture shows T Krishnamacharya and BKS Iyengar sitting together……
This picture shows T Krishnamacharya and BKS Iyengar sitting together at an event in Chennai in June 1980 where BKS Iyengar was invited to give a Yoga lecture and Āsana demonstration in a tribute to his Guru T Krishnamacharya.
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This picture shows T Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar……
This picture shows T Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar opening with Vedic Chanting at an event in Chennai in June 1980 where BKS Iyengar was invited to give a Yoga lecture and Āsana demonstration in a tribute to his Guru T Krishnamacharya.
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TKV and Menaka Desikachar’s children circa 1980……
TKV and Menaka Desikachar’s children circa 1980 all now parents themselves with a son for Bushan (b1970) and a daughter for Kausthub (b1975) and Mekhala (b1978).
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TKV Desikachar and AG Mohan, the co-founders of the KYM…….
TKV Desikachar and AG Mohan, the co-founders of Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, with some of the Yoga Teaching and Yoga Therapy Faculty, Menaka Desikachar, Indra Mohan, R Prabhakar and (sorry can’t remember just now as she was the only person in the picture that I did not have lessons with at some point, maybe Laksmi?) alongside Jenny and myself in 1980.
Those were very good times and a typical week during my two year stay meant that I could have lessons with my root teacher TKV Desikachar and also S Ramaswami in their homes as well as further lessons with such as Mohan, Menaka, Indra, and others in the KYM, which in those days hosted a young, vibrant and independently thinking faculty community based around T Krishnamacharya’s presence and still vital teaching, even though 92 in 1980.
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Krishnamacharya ‘stopping’ ( or at least slowing) his heart……
This is another extract from a post today on Anthony Grim Hall’s
excellent Blog and Resource website
Krishnamacharya ‘stopping’ ( or at least slowing) his heart, medical journal article Presse Medicale-1936
REPOSTED WITH A TRANSLATION BY MATTHIEU BONETTI OF THE ORIGINAL 1936 PRESSE MEDICALE ARTICLE
“The article is heavy going in places but if your short of time jump to the results section, skimming through get a feel for the experiments that took place and allow free reign to your imagination.”
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Salutations to the Teacher and the Eternal One – T Krishnamacharya
This is an extract from a post today on Anthony Grim Hall’s
excellent Blog and Resource website
“I was passed this document recently called Salutations to the Teacher and the Eternal One purportedly by T. Krishnamacharya. I received it from two sources. one asked me to only share it with somebody who asked directly and I’ve respected that. I’ve since received the text from another source with no conditions attached and so have decided to share it.”
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Summary of Posts – TKV Desikachar Interviewed by Viniyoga Italia
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What if people started calling it Desikachar Yoga?
Interviewer: What if people started calling it Desikachar Yoga? Would that ruin it too because you suddenly have a label?
Desikachar: It is really murdering – they are murdering my spirit! What I have received is from my teacher and what he received is from his teacher. There is a lineage of more than 2000 years. How can they label this Desikachar? They are murdering me because they are murdering my teacher.
Interviewer: If they named it after your father that wouldn’t be good either?
Desikachar: No, my father would be in tears. Whatever he invented, he never said he invented it. I know that he innovated things, but he would never say ‘it is mine’. That is the Indian philosophy of humility and respect for the teacher. They always would say, ‘my teacher taught this to me.’
Extract from an interview with TKV Desikachar conducted during a May 2002 seminar and published in Yoga and Health in July 2003. To read or download as a PDF file – click here.
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Do you think that a Yoga teacher in the West should go through some……
Question : Do you think that a Yoga teacher in the West should go through some therapy or analysis in order to be aware of the developments in this field and to meet the growing demand for psychological help?
Desikachar : The term “Yoga teacher in the West” seems to suggest that everyone has the same way of teaching. This is not so.
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My father never acknowledged that he discovered anything even when……
“My father never acknowledged that he discovered anything even when I have seen that it was he who discovered. He has discovered postures but he would say that it was his teacher who taught him. Rarely has he said that it was his “original” work.
At the same time, I have seen him – because I am his son also – composing some verses and correcting those verses for the chandas and all that and finally saying – this is what Nathamuni is saying and this is what my teacher says!
I tend to think that the Nathamuni’s Yoga Rahasya that he taught us is quite likely to be a combination of his own commentary and the lessons he received though he would not accept it.”
- ‘The Study of Yoga Rahasya’ – Extract from an Interview with TKV Desikachar in Darsanam, a publication from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram vol 1 no 1 Feb 1991.
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T Krishnamacharya answers his students……
A selection of the questions asked over the years by his students, together with Krishnamacharya’s responses.
-.Originally published by the KYM Darśanam May 1994