Got it. Written in 1995, The Heart of Yoga is based on the teachings of Desikachar’s father, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, a storied yogi to whom much of contemporary yoga can be traced.

One of the pioneers of this form – a rational, scientific approach to yoga as exercise and therapy – was (almost) local lad Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, widely regarded as the ‘Father of ...

But here are some of the things you may not know about the great yogi: 1.His brother-in-law was known as the “father of modern yoga” In 1934, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya first invited his young ...

He not only survived his illness for a few years – he lived to 95. His brother-in-law and teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, founder of vinyasa yoga, lived to age 100. And Krishnamacharya’s ...

Sivananda Saraswati and Tirumalai Krishnamacharya focused on the corporeality of the yoga practice, saw it as a physical fitness regime and even developed new postural systems. Krishnamacharya's ...