T. K. V. Desikachar

T. K. V. Desikachar
Born(1938-06-21)21 June 1938
Mysore, Mysore district, Kingdom of Mysore (now Karnataka, India)
Died8 August 2016(2016-08-08) (aged 78)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation(s)Yoga teacher, author
Known forViniyoga
SpouseMenaka Desikachar
ChildrenSons Bushan (b1970) & Kausthub (b1975) and a daughter Mekhala (b1978)

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar (21 June 1938 – 8 August 2016), better known as T. K. V. Desikachar, was a yoga teacher, son of the pioneer of modern yoga as exercise, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. The style that he taught was initially called Viniyoga although he later abandoned that name and asked for the methods he taught to be called "yoga" without special qualification.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Shearer, Alistair (2020). The Story of Yoga from Ancient India to the Modern West. London: Hurst. pp. 161–165. ISBN 978-1787381926.
  2. ^ Singleton, Mark; Fraser, Tara (2014). Singleton, Mark; Goldberg, Ellen (eds.). Gurus of Modern Yoga. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 83–92. ISBN 978-0199938728.
  3. ^ Jain, Andrea R. (2015). Selling Yoga. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 76, 88, 96. ISBN 978-0199390243. Krishnamacharya ... his students, most notably Iyengar, K Pattabhi Jois, and T.K.V. Desikachar, who constructed yoga brands and most successfully marketed those brands to the general populace ...