| Name
/ Title |
TIRUMALAI
KRISHNAMACHARYA |
| Date of
Birth |
November 18, 1888 |
| Date of
Death |
February 28, 1989 |
| Identity |
Indian yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. |
| General |
- He is often referred to as "The Father of Modern Yoga".
- He is widely regarded as one of the most
influential yoga teachers of the 20th century and is
credited with the revival of hatha yoga.
- He held degrees in all the six Vedic darśanas, or Indian
philosophies.
- While under the patronage of the Maharaja of Mysore,
Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, he travelled around India giving
lectures and demonstrations to promote yoga, including such
feats as stopping his heartbeat.
- He is widely considered as the architect of vinyasa, in
the sense of combining breathing with movement.
- Underlying all his teachings was the principle
“Teach what is appropriate for an individual.”
- While he is revered in other parts of the world as a
yogi, in India he is mainly known as a healer who drew from
both ayurvedic and yogic traditions to restore health and
well-being to those he treated. He authored four books on
yoga—Yoga Makaranda (1934), Yogaasangalu (c. 1941), Yoga
Rahasya, and Yogavalli (Chapter 1 - 1988)—as well as several
essays and poetic compositions.
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