In 1939 and 1940, Krishnamacharya was visited by a French m… - T.K.V. Desikachar

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In 1939 and 1940, Krishnamacharya was visited by a French medical team who wanted to verify that an experienced yogi could deliberately stop his heartbeat. For Śrī Krishnamacharya, this muchmarvelled-at examination was a rather bothersome demonstration, one that he undertook out of feeling responsible to validate yoga in the eyes of the skeptical scientific world.

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Native Name: Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar

Alternative Names: T. K. V. Desikachar

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Desikachar helps us realize that what is essential in the practice of yoga is the breath because each pose, each movement, originates from there.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

as Francis Bacon put it more than four centuries ago, is that “the mind can be enlarged, according to its capacity, to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.” — R.

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