Every Yoga School should have an Adviser..
Be Yoga Studio are proud to have
Dr. Kausthub Desikachar as our Adviser
Where Our Adviser Come From:
Thirumalai Krishnamacharya
Professor Tirumalai Krishnamacharya is known worldwide as the father of modern Yoga. He revolutionized Yoga in the 20th century and made it accessible to everyone. He was an outstanding Vedic scholar who was versed in all the six philosophies of Indian thought, as well as in other Vedic disciplines such as Ayurveda and Astrology. Later in life, he opened the doors of Vedic Chanting, previously only allowed to male Brahmins, to every sincere student, independent of age, religion, nationality, caste or gender.
He stood for a profound yet practical approach to Yoga, where all the tools of Yoga are implemented and wisely adapted to meet the needs, abilities, goals and requirements of each individual. He understood the body not just as a physical construct, but as part of a holistic entity. He propagated a Yoga that is not superficial but works on and with the subtle aspects of energy, what the Yogis call Prana. During his life he showed that Yoga can be used as a holistic practice, a way of life that connects body, mind and spirit, a spiritual path, and also as an extremely potent healing tool. Apart from being a Yoga Teacher, Krishnamacharya was known as a powerful healer and helped many people with ailments in body, mind and spirit.
His students, including Indra Devi, Pattabhi Jois, BKS Iyengar and his son TKV Desikachar, testify to the significance of his life’s work and to the breadth of teachings that he stood for. They underline his position as one of the most significant Yoga masters, teachers and therapists of the modern era.
T.K.V. Desikachar
T.K.V. Desikachar studied civil engineering before he decided to dedicate his life to Yoga. Being impeccably precise yet practical, he was always interested in making Yoga more accessible to every practitioner. He knew that the knowledge of his father was extraordinary, but that it needed to be explained in a way that every student of Yoga could understand. He wrote “The Heart of Yoga”, a worldwide bestseller and one of the most cherished books on Yoga, as an attempt to explain Yoga’s philosophy and foundations to a a broad audience. He designed the first stick figures, so that asana practices could be easily grasped and remembered by students. He broke the Sanskrit sentences of the Yoga Sutras into smaller parts, so people from all over the world could learn to recite and memorize them. His main focus was always to present the profundity of Yoga in a simple, modern and practial way. When Desikachar explained even difficult concepts of Yoga in workshops or seminars around the world, he was able to present them in a manner that modern students could understand, embrace and relate to.
Living in the same household as his father and teacher, Desikachar was introduced to the full range of Krishnamacharya’s teachings and was able to witness how his father’s teachings developed over the decades. Krishnamacharya shared as much of his knowledge with his son as he could and never stopped teaching him. For example, Desikachar studied the Yoga Sutras nine times in three decades with his father, a process that revealed ever deeper layers of the text to him. As the most important lesson, Krishnamacharya stressed how the tools of Yoga must always be applied to respect a person’s constitution, his goals, lifestyle, as well as his emotional, energetical, mental and psychological state. Desikachar was particularly impressed and attracted by the healing capacities of his father’s Yoga and became an outstanding pulse reader and Yoga Therapist himself. He also had an outstanding ability to read people and knew what they needed from him. He became instrumental in expounding the role of Yoga Therapy in the world and founded the first Yoga Therapy clinic in Chennai in dedication to his father. In 2006, he cofounded the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation with his son Kausthub in order to spread the Yoga teachings internationally.
He continued the teaching legacy of his father and always taught his students one-to-one with personalizing their practices, stressing that Yoga always has to be taught individually and not in groups. Throughout his career, T.K.V. Desikachar has helped and healed numerous people with Yoga Therapy and is known as one of the most respected and famous Yoga Teachers as well as the most significant Yoga Therapist of our times.
Our Adviser Dr. Kausthub Desikachar
Dr. Kausthub Desikachar is the current lineage holder of the classical Yoga tradition of T Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikachar.
He is also the CEO of the Krishnamacharya Healing & Yoga Foundation. http://khyf.net/
He is an acclaimed yoga teacher, yoga therapist, healer and writer.
Kausthub has been studying Yoga since he was 9 years old under the continued guidance of his father and teacher T.K.V. Desikachar. For more than 15 years, Kausthub has taught a multitude of students and teachers around the globe and has conducted numerous teacher and therapist training programs. He has a dual Masters degree from the renowned Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani, and a PhD from the Psychology Department at the University of Madras, where his topic of research was “Effect of Individualised Yoga Training on Quality of Life.”
Kausthub is an outstanding Yoga Therapist with extraordinary observation skills and offers clients astute and effective solutions for all sorts of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual ailments. He combines his classical training in Yoga and Ayurveda, his modern education in psychology, and his interactions with traditional healers worldwide, to offer optimum and effective synergetic solutions to alleviate a wide range of problems. As a Yoga educator, he is known for his vast knowledge and his ability to present the ancient teachings in a profound, yet applicable, modern and often humorous way. In his free time, Kausthub enjoys photography, cricket, traveling and visiting spiritual places.