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The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
T. K. V. Desikachar
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Description for The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
Paperback. The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga-adapted to the needs of the individual Num Pages: 272 pages, 100 b&w photographs and 200 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPDF; VFMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 188 x 19. Weight in Grams: 662.
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve ... Read more
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Inner Traditions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9780892817641
SKU
9780892817641
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About T. K. V. Desikachar
A structural engineer by training, T. K. V. Desikachar (1938–2016) lived and studied with his father until Krishnamacharya's death in 1989. He devoted his life to yoga instruction for people of all backgrounds and all levels of ability and taught at the school founded in his father's memory in India, the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, as well as in Europe, the ... Read more
Reviews for The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
"I can think of no better book to recommend to a friend beginning to be excited by yoga but bewildered by the plethora of different schools and their sometimes-conflicting teachings. In addition, I would be hard-pressed to think of a book I would recommend more highly to any yoga student seeking to deepen a yoga practice . . . The ... Read more