Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga-poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy-and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle. In his introduction to Heart of Yoga, Mark Whitwell makes this point quite clearly. In The Heart of YogaDesikachar offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as ''a program for the spine at every level-physical, mental, and spiritual.'' This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga. The prime influence on Desikachar and his teaching of yoga was his father Krishnamacharya, who emphasised the importance of adapting yoga according to the needs, capacities and aspirations of each student.

Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga.ĭesikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve the maximum therapeutic value. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. OL894551W Page_number_confidence 86.96 Pages 278 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211011203516 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 283 Scandate 20211007054306 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780892817641 Tts_version 4.Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Urn:lcp:heartofyogadevel0000desi_t4e5:epub:3b181bd5-5d69-4cc4-98d7-a49671adc044 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier heartofyogadevel0000desi_t4e5 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t43s3fh7c Invoice 1652 Isbn 089281764X Lccn 99462597 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9689 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200049 Openlibrary_edition Urn:lcp:heartofyogadevel0000desi_t4e5:lcpdf:b859917f-005f-42f4-808b-3cc40f60876d Gill Lloyd, former teacher trainer for the British Wheel of Yoga and former chair of both Viniyoga Britain and KHYF-UK, talks with J about her life in yoga and the influence of TKV Desikachar. Desikachar (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,999 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 331.55 Read with Our Free App Paperback 394.00 Other new and used from 349. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:18:03 Boxid IA40255912 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Desikachar The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition by T.

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