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Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (18 November 1888 – 28 February 1989) [1] [2] was an Indian yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. He is seen as one of the most important gurus of modern yoga, [3] and is often called "Father of Modern Yoga" for his wide influence on the development of postural yoga.
In 1937, Krishnamacharya sent Iyengar to Pune at the age of eighteen to spread the teaching of yoga. [ 12 ] [ 18 ] Though Iyengar had very high regard for Krishnamacharya, [ 16 ] and occasionally turned to him for advice, he had a troubled relationship with his guru during his tutelage. [ 19 ]
Krishnamacharya was a renowned Indian yoga master, ayurvedic healer, and scholar who created many of the practices of yoga as exercise, and whose students B. K. S. Iyengar, Indra Devi, K. Pattabhi Jois, and T. K. V. Desikachar dramatically popularized yoga in the West. [4]
The guru–shishya tradition involved a long-term, one-to-one relationship between master and pupil. [3] Watercolour, Punjab Hills, India, 1740. Before the creation of modern yoga, hatha yoga was practised in secret by solitary, ascetic yogins, learning the tradition as a long-term pupil or shishya apprenticed to their master or guru.
She became interested in yoga, Nepal's prince Mussoorie showing her some asanas, [12] [13] and she was impressed by the yoga guru Krishnamacharya's demonstration of apparently stopping his heart. [12] She asked to study with him; in 1938, he reluctantly accepted her as a student after his employer, the Maharaja of Mysore, spoke on her behalf ...
Yoga Makaranda (Sanskrit: योग मकरन्द ), meaning "Essence of Yoga", is a 1934 book on hatha yoga by the influential pioneer of yoga as exercise, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. Most of the text is a description of 42 asanas accompanied by 95 photographs of Krishnamacharya and his students executing the poses.
Gurus of Modern Yoga is an edited 2014 collection of essays on some of the gurus (leaders) of modern yoga by the yoga scholars Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg. [1]The book has been broadly welcomed by critics as a necessary introduction to some of these figures, though some of them have regretted the book's lack of an evaluation of recent research on the place of the guru in modern yoga, or ...
K. Pattabhi Jois (26 July 1915 [1] – 18 May 2009) [2] was an Indian yoga guru [3] who developed and popularized the flowing style of yoga as exercise known as Ashtanga (vinyasa) yoga. [ a ] [ 4 ] In 1948, Jois established the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute [ 5 ] in Mysore , India . [ 6 ]