T. Krishnamacharya

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T. Krishnamacharya ( Tirumalai Krishnamacharya ; born November 18, 1888 in Muchukundapura , Karnataka ; † February 28, 1989 in Madras , Tamil Nadu ) was an Indian yoga teacher, Ayurveda healer and scholar.

He is often referred to as the "father of modern yoga".

Krishnamacharya, who achieved all six degrees of Vedic Darshan ( Indian philosophy ), is considered one of the most influential yoga teachers of the 20th century, who is credited with the revival of Hatha Yoga .

Live and act

T. Krishnamacharya is from the village of Muchukundapura in the Chitradurga district . He studied Sanskrit and philosophy at various Indian universities as well as the practice of Hatha yoga with Ramamohana Brahmachari , who lived near Lake Manasarovar in Tibet .

Under the auspices of the Maharajah of Mysore , Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Krishnamacharya traveled through India to give yoga lectures and demonstrations, including heart-stopping feats.

He is considered the architect of Vinyasa yoga, through the combination of breathing and movement. The basis for the teaching of Krishnamacharya was the principle "Teach what is appropriate for the individual."

While he became known as a yogi in other parts of the world, in India Krishnamacharya is mainly revered as a healer who restored health and well-being using means of the Ayurvedic and yogic traditions.

He has authored four books on yoga as well as several treatises and poems. After Indian independence he established his yoga school in Madras.

Krishnamacharya married in 1925 Srimathi T. Namagiriammal (1914 to 1985), he had with her three daughters (Srimathi Pundarikavalli, Srimathi T. Alamelu Sheshadri, Srimathi Shubha Mohan Kumar) and three sons (TK Srinivasan, born in 1931, TKV Desikachar , TK Sribhashyam ).

Krishnamacharya's students include some very well-known yoga teachers such as his sons TKV Desikachar (1938–2016) and TK Sribhashyam (1940–2017), as well as Indra Devi (1900–2002), his brother-in-law BKS Iyengar (1918–2014), K. Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009), and AG Mohan (* 1945).

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  1. ↑ Yoga Journal. P. 6. limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ T. Krishnamacharya - The Legend lives on ... ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (kym.org) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kym.org
  3. ↑ Eckard Wolz-Gottwald: Yoga-Philosophy-Atlas. Experience of primordial awareness. Via Nova, Fuld 2006, ISBN 978-3-936486-04-9 , pp. 187-189
  4. ↑ Krishnamacharya - Father of Modern Yoga . In: en: About.com . July 15, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
  5. ^ Memories of a Master . In: YogaJournal.com . Retrieved October 10, 2011.
  6. ^ The YJ Interview: Partners in Peace . In: YogaJournal.com . Retrieved October 10, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b c Ruiz 2001.
  8. ↑ TKV Desikachar , Richard H. Cravens: Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya. Farrar, Straus and Giroux , New York City , 2011, p. 47 ( online in Google Book Search)
  9. ↑ TKV Desikachar, Richard H. Cravens: Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City, 2011, p. 94 ( online in Google Book Search)
  10. ↑ Paul Harvey, Center for Yoga Studies: Śrī T Krishnamacharya - The Source (1888 to 1989) , October 8, 2008, accessed March 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Krishnamacharya, T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krishnamacharya, Tirumalai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian yoga teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Karnataka
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1989
Place of death Madras , Tamil Nadu