Vedic tradition from
the best teachers in India. Due to
his perseverance and eagerness he mastered all the philosophical schools
of Indian learning, Ayurveda, and Sanskrit. At the age of
twenty-eight,
he
trekked to lake Manasarovar at the foot of Mt.Kailash, in the Himalayas, to
learn Yoga from Rama Mohana Brahmachari. He left Manasarovar seven and a
half years later at the command of his guru, to share his wisdom with and
for the benefit of society at large.
Being a master of several disciplines, Krishnamacharya was offered high
scholastic positions in great institutes of learning and in the courts of
kings, but he chose to be a teacher of yoga, in order to honor the promise
he made to his Guru.
On many occasions he
demonstrated to the world the great potential of yoga, in different areas
of health and self control. His ability to stop his heart beat for over
two minutes, using yogic practices, was indeed a notable example. With his
vast learning in yoga and other systems of Indian Philosophy, he
emphasized that the practice of yoga must be adapted to the
individuals, and never the individual to yoga. This was probably one of his
most significant contributions to the field of health and healing through
yoga.
Through his teachings, T
Krishnamacharya always insisted on utilizing the spirit of yoga to
enhance the quality of our lives. He never insisted on one particular
technique, but rather emphasized that techniques must be evolved to suit
the needs of the individual at the given moment. This is indeed the yoga
of yoga. Krishnamacharya lived for over a hundred years and continued to
teach until the last few days of his life.
