Talk:Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

Why no mention of Bukh?
The influence of Bukh's gymnastics as introduced by the British is explicated by Mark Singleton (who is cited in a comment below). It should be in this article.

Expansion suggestion
An interesting route of expansion would be the relation ship with Swami Vivekananda, the Bengali renaissance, and Hindu nationalism. As well, the relationship in the other direction, to Iyengar and Western popular yoga might be recast in this light. Krishnamacharya seems the pivotal figure in taking a resurgence in nationalist inspired study of Hindu philosophy, and isolating or perfecting the practice one segment (Yoga), which caught the imagination of western orientalists. Good references for such study might be:


 * Elizabeth De Michelis.  A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005 ISBN 0826487726
 * Joseph S. Alter. Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, (2004)
 * Joseph S. Alter. Yoga at the Fin de Siecle: Muscular Christianity with a 'Hindu' Twist. Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 23, Issue 5 August 2006, pp. 759 - 776.
 * Maya Burger. What Price Salvation? The Exchange of Salvation Goods between India and the West. Social Compass, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2006, pp. 81-95
 * Mark Singleton. Yoga, Eugenics, and Spiritual Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century. International Journal of Hindu Studies. Volume 11, Number 2 / August, 2007,  pp. 125-146
 * Chandrima Chakraborty. The Hindu ascetic as fitness instructor: Reviving faith in yoga. Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 24, Issue 9 September 2007, pp. 1172 - 1186
 * Mario Prayer. Sadhana and Nationalism: Yoga, Sakti and Des Seva in Subhas Chandra Bose. South Asia Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1997, pp. 37-70
 * Peter Van Der Veer. Colonial Cosmopolitanisms. pp. 165-179  in Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context and Practice. Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen (eds). Oxford University Press, (2002) ISBN 0199252289
 * Klas Nevrin. Krishnamacharya’s Viniyoga: On Modern Yoga and Sri Vaisnavism. Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Vol. 14, no. 1, 2005, pp.65-94.

T L Miles (talk) 15:58, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * At the risk of making an, ah, hasty reply, I've covered much of that ground at Yoga as exercise. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:56, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

"He is widely considered as the architect of vinyasa"?
What is the source of this statement? Weren't there many yoga teachers that didn't learn from Krishnamacharya like Sivananda that were combining breath and movement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.244.121 (talk) 05:04, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

B-class review
B-class review for WP:BIO: failed. Reason: numerous unreferenced sentences throughout the article. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:55, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Sjoman para
The Yoga Journal source says:


 * In turn, says Sjoman, Krishnamacharya drew on the Sritattvanidhi tradition and blended it with a number of other sources, as Sjoman discovered by reading the various books by Krishnamacharya in the Maharaja's library.

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 * Along the way, claims Sjoman, Krishnamacharya also seems to have incorporated into the yogic canon specific techniques drawn from British gymnastics. In addition to being a patron of yoga, the Mysore royal family was a great patron of gymnastics. In the early 1900s, they hired a British gymnast to teach the young princes. When Krishnamacharya was brought to the palace to start a yoga school in the 1920s, his schoolroom was the former palace gymnastics hall, complete with wall ropes and other gymnastic aids, which Krishnamacharya used as yoga props. He was also given access to the Western gymnastics manual written by the Mysore Palace gymnasts. This manual—excerpted in Sjoman's book—gives detailed instructions and illustrations for physical maneuvers that Sjoman argues quickly found their way into Krishnamacharya's teachings, and passed on to Iyengar and Jois: for example, lolasana, the cross-legged jumpback that helps link together the vinyasa in the Ashtanga series, and Iyengar's technique of walking the hands backward down a wall into a back arch.

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