Peter Hersnack (1948-2016) was a rare example of living yoga. As a young man he travelled to India to study with TKV Desikachar in Madras, living with his teacher’s family for four years. After that, Peter’s life was dedicated to the study, practice and teaching of yoga, as he had learned it from Desikachar, but infused with his own unique understanding. He had the capacity for direct ‘seeing’, and unconditional, deep listening. He showed how to step back ‘out of your own way’ and give com...

Early on the morning of August 8, 2016, Sri T.K.V. Desikachar, son of the great yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, passed away in Chennai, in the Tamil Nadu, a province of southern India.Those whose written accounts are compiled here were his personal students for many years. Some of them, Indians, taught alongside him at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for 20, 30, or 40 years. Others, Europeans, belong to the “pioneers” who, beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, went to Madras, som...