KYM founder passes away
He was 78. According to sources at KYM, the cremation is over.
Chennai: T.K.V. Desikachar, a structural engineer, who shone as one of the world’s renowned yoga gurus and a source of inspiration for all the teachers at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) trust he founded is no more.
This son of reputed T. Krishnamacharya, an Indian yoga teacher, Ayurvedic healer and scholar, often referred to as “The Father of Modern Yoga,” and credited with the revival of hatha yoga, died at his house in Mandaveli here at around 2.45 am.
He was 78. According to sources at KYM, the cremation is over. A large number of his students and followers from various parts of the country and abroad paid their homage.
T.K.V. Desikachar, quit his job as an engineer and embarked on a journey in yoga. In 1976 he founded Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) which took yoga to new heights. He father was his fountain of inspiration for him and he established the KYM to give life to his father’s vision.
And today, the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram continues to remain as one of the premier institutes involved in imparting yoga and providing yoga as therapy. For over half-a-century, Desikachar had devoted himself to teaching yoga and making it relevant to people from all walks of life and with all kinds of abilities. His yoga is based on Krishnamacharya’s fundamental principle that yoga must always be adapted to an individual’s changing needs in order to derive the maximum therapeutic benefit.