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'''Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar''' (21 June 1938 – 8 August 2016), better known as '''T. K. V. Desikachar''', was a yoga teacher, son of the pioneer of modern [[yoga as exercise]], [[Tirumalai Krishnamacharya]]. The style that he taught was initially called [[Viniyoga]] although he later abandoned that name and asked for the methods he taught to be called "yoga" without special qualification.<ref name="Hurst 2020">{{cite book |last1=Shearer |first1=Alistair |title=[[The Story of Yoga|The Story of Yoga from Ancient India to the Modern West]] |date=2020 |publisher=Hurst |location=London |isbn=978-1787381926 |pages=161-165}}</ref><ref name="Singleton Fraser 2014">{{cite book |last1=Singleton |first1=Mark |last2=Fraser |first2=Tara |author-link1=Mark Singleton (yoga scholar) |editor1-last=Singleton |editor1-first=Mark |editor2-last=Goldberg |editor2-first=Ellen |title=Gurus of Modern Yoga |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199938728 |pages=83-92}}</ref><ref name="Jain 2015">{{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Andrea R. |title=[[Selling Yoga]] |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199390243 |pages=76, 88, 96 |quote=Krishnamacharya ... his students, most notably Iyengar, K Pattabhi Jois, and T.K.V. Desikachar, who constructed yoga brands and most successfully marketed those brands to the general populace ...}}</ref> | '''Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar''' (21 June 1938 – 8 August 2016), better known as '''T. K. V. Desikachar''', was a yoga teacher, son of the pioneer of modern [[yoga as exercise]], [[Tirumalai Krishnamacharya]]. The style that he taught was initially called [[Viniyoga]] although he later abandoned that name and asked for the methods he taught to be called "yoga" without special qualification.<ref name="Hurst 2020">{{cite book |last1=Shearer |first1=Alistair |title=[[The Story of Yoga|The Story of Yoga from Ancient India to the Modern West]] |date=2020 |publisher=Hurst |location=London |isbn=978-1787381926 |pages=161-165}}</ref><ref name="Singleton Fraser 2014">{{cite book |last1=Singleton |first1=Mark |last2=Fraser |first2=Tara |author-link1=Mark Singleton (yoga scholar) |editor1-last=Singleton |editor1-first=Mark |editor2-last=Goldberg |editor2-first=Ellen |title=Gurus of Modern Yoga |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199938728 |pages=83-92}}</ref><ref name="Jain 2015">{{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Andrea R. |title=[[Selling Yoga]] |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199390243 |pages=76, 88, 96 |quote=Krishnamacharya ... his students, most notably Iyengar, K Pattabhi Jois, and T.K.V. Desikachar, who constructed yoga brands and most successfully marketed those brands to the general populace ...}}</ref> | ||
== | ==Biography== | ||
Desikachar | Desikachar was born in Mysore, son of the pioneer of modern yoga [[Tirumalai Krishnamacharya]], under whom he studied. He moved to [[Madras]] (now Chennai) in the early 1960s. He had trained as an [[engineer]], but, inspired by his father's teachings, he studied under his father in the 1960s, and from the 1970s he taught in many parts of the world. He published many books, especially the 1995 ''The Heart of Yoga''. During his thirty years of study, Desikachar learned the practice and application of yoga techniques and texts, for [[yoga as therapy|therapeutic]], exercise, and spiritual purposes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Poses-and-postures/article14558639.ece |title=Poses and postures|publisher=The Hindu News |date=2010 |access-date=2010-04-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kym.org/about-kym/ |title=Pioneering work in the area of wellness through Yoga |publisher=KYM |date=2016 |access-date=2016-02-12}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.dayananda.org/kym-yoga-retreat-july2017.html |title=A Residential Yoga Retreat at Swami Dayananda Ashram - Rishikesh |publisher=Dayanand.org |date=2017 |access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref> | ||
In 1976 Desikachar and [[A. G. Mohan]] founded the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), a yoga therapy clinic and yoga center in Madras, India, as a non-profit public charitable trust. Under Desikachar’s leadership, it offered teacher training and individual instruction in asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga philosophy, and Vedic chanting. It conducted research into the impact of yoga on people suffering from schizophrenia, diabetes, asthma, and depression. It has been | Desikachar developed Viniyoga,<ref name=YJ>{{cite journal |url=https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/meet-the-innovators-t-k-v-desikachar |title=T.K.V. Desikachar Developed Viniyoga to Fit Each Individual Student |author=Ricci, Jeanne |date=28 August 2007 |journal=[[Yoga Journal]] |access-date=2017-08-28}}</ref> a term from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This approach is claimed to be holistic and aligned with the ''Yoga Sutras''.<ref name=YJ/> | ||
In 1976 Desikachar and [[A. G. Mohan]] founded the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), a [[yoga as therapy|yoga therapy]] clinic and yoga center in Madras, India, as a non-profit public charitable trust.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yogachicago.com/jan04/desikachar.shtml |title=An Interview with T.K.V. Desikachar and his family following the Krishnamacharya Yoga Festival in San Francisco |publisher=Scott Peck |date=2004 |access-date=2004-02-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2470&context=gradreports | title=Modern Yoga in America |page=18 | publisher=Emily Parkinson Perry, Utah State University |date=2020-05-20 |access-date=2021-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.viniyoga.com.sg/honoring-sir-tkv-desikachar-viniyoga-kausthub-desikachar-2021 | title=Honoring Sir, A Celebration of Viniyoga |date=2021-06-20 |access-date=2021-07-08}}</ref> Under Desikachar’s leadership, it offered teacher training and individual instruction in asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga philosophy, and Vedic chanting. It conducted research into the impact of yoga on people suffering from schizophrenia, diabetes, asthma, and depression. It has been recognized by the Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of the Department for Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. The institution is a public registered charity, identified by the Department of Family Health and Welfare of the [[Government of Tamil Nadu]]. | |||
==Family== | ==Family== | ||
His wife, Menaka Desikachar, taught yoga and Vedic chanting at KYM and continues to do so at Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation (KHYF), founded in 2016. Bushan Desikachar, Dr. Kausthub Desikachar and Mekhala Desikachar are his three children. Kausthub is the Chief Executive and a senior teacher and yoga therapy consultant at KHYF. Kausthub was the Executive Trustee of the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) till 2012, when he stepped down after sexual misconduct allegations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yogajournal.com/blog/kausthub-desikachar-faces-abuse-allegations |title=Kausthub Desikachar Faces Abuse Allegations |publisher=Yoga Journal |date=2012 |access-date=2018-03-21}}</ref> | |||
His wife, Menaka Desikachar, | |||
==Death== | ==Death== | ||
Desikachar died on 8 August 2016 in Chennai, India at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/Yoga-guru-T.K.V.-Desikachar-no-more/article14560134.ece |title=Yoga guru T.K.V. Desikachar no more |publisher=The Hindu |date=2016 |access-date=2016-08-09}}</ref> | Desikachar died on 8 August 2016 in Chennai, India at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/Yoga-guru-T.K.V.-Desikachar-no-more/article14560134.ece |title=Yoga guru T.K.V. Desikachar no more |publisher=The Hindu |date=2016 |access-date=2016-08-09}}</ref> | ||
==Bibliography== | |||
Desikachar authored books that include<ref>{{cite web |url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=antioch1584465676302857&disposition=inline | title=Beyond Dissociation And Appropriation: Interpretation Of Culturally Embedded Presentations Of Yoga, Page 336 | publisher=Genelle Benker | date=2019-06-01 | access-date=2018-03-21}}</ref> | |||
* Desikachar, T. K. V. (1995). ''The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice.'' Rochester, VM: Inner Traditions International. | |||
* Desikachar, T. K. V., with Kausthub Desikachar and Frans Moors (2001). ''The Viniyoga of Yoga: Applying Yoga for Healthy Living'', Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, India | |||
* Desikachar, T. K. V. (2003). ''Nathamuni’s Yoga Rahasya.'' Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, India | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||