In addition, I would be hard-pressed to think of a book I would recommend more highly to any yoga student seeking to deepen a yoga practice. This is a revised edition of The Heart of Yoga.ĭesikachar speaks from the heart with tenderness as well as an engineer's careful attention to details and individuality., I can think of no better book to recommend to a friend beginning to be excited by yoga but bewildered by the plethora of different schools and their sometimes-conflicting teachings. 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. 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. In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar 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. Desikachar 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.
Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. 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. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era.
This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings.
A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher. The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga-yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.
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