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2 unusual facts about Tirumalai Krishnamacharya


Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

Some of Krishnamacharya's students include many of yoga’s most renowned teachers: his son T. K. V. Desikachar (b. 1938), Indra Devi (1900-2002), his brother-in-law B. K. S. Iyengar (b. 1918), K. Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009), and A. G. Mohan (b. 1945).

In The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace, Norman Sjoman asserts that Krishnamacharya was influenced by the Sritattvanidhi and also the Vyayama Dipika, a Western based gymnastics manual written by the Mysore Palace gymnasts.


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