20/11/2025
Ayer hubiera tenido su cumpleaños el abuelo de yoga
Today marks the Jayanti of Shri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (November 18, 1888 – February 28, 1989), a profoundly influential yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer, and scholar who is credited with the revival and renewal of Hatha Yoga, not only as a spiritual practice, which remains paramount, but also as a physical and therapeutic discipline grounded in the Yoga Sutras and other classical yoga texts. I offer my most reverential pranams to the great Yogacharya 🙏🙏🙏.
Shri Krishnamacharya was adept in all six Vedic darśanas, or Indian philosophies. Under the patronage of the King of Mysore, Krishna Raja Wodiyar IV, Shri Krishnamacharya traveled extensively throughout India, delivering lectures and demonstrations to promote yoga, including remarkable feats such as apparently stopping his heartbeat. His fundamental teaching principle was 'Teach what is appropriate for an individual.' While revered globally as a Yogacharya, in India, Krishnamacharya is also recognized as a healer who drew from both ayurvedic and yogic traditions. He authored four books on yoga – Yoga Makaranda (1934), Yogaasanagalu (c. 1941), Yoga Rahasya, and Yogavalli (Chapter 1 – 1988) – as well as several essays and poetic compositions. Shri Krishnamacharya's students included many of yoga's most renowned and influential teachers: Indra Devi (1899–2002); K. Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009); B. K. S. Iyengar (1918-2014); his son T. K. V. Desikachar (1938-2016); Srivatsa Ramaswami (born 1939); and A. G. Mohan (born 1945). He and his students have significantly influenced the practice of Hatha Yoga as we know it today.
