Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, 1889-1999, was a well spring of yogic wisdom. More than any other single person, with his firm belief that anyone can do yoga, he revitalized yoga as a holistic healing system for the modern age. "Krishnamacharya's mission was to bring the promise of Yoga, particularly the healing potential, to anyone who wished to receive it ... It was to be available to any sincere individual of any age, caste, station in life, cultural background and religious belief or non-belief."

Sri Krishnamacharya's teaching remains one of the greatest influences shaping yoga as we know it, inspiring many of the popular methods of yoga taught today. Many yoga masters of great renown including BKS Iyangar, Pattabhi Jois, Indra Devi and his own son TKV Desikachar studied with this legendary yogi, scholar and healer. His longest standing student, his son Desikachar, continues to pass on the lineage of Sri Krishnamacharya's teachings.
 

T.K.V. Desikachar is one of the most respected Yoga healers and teachers of our time. He studied with his father, Sri T Krishnamacharya, for three decades. In 1976, he founded the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), a non-profit healing center in Chennai, India, to honor his father and share his teachings. More recently, with his son Kausthub, he founded the Krishnamacharya Healing & Yoga Foundation (KHYF) as the official umbrella organization representing the holistic yoga tradition of Yogacarya Sri T Krishnamacharya, and supporting all teachers, trainers and therapists in this lineage. Desikachar is the author of many books and publications, including Health, Healing and Beyond and The Heart of Yoga.

Srivatsa Ramaswami mastered Vinyasa Krama, Vedic Chanting and Yoga Therapy.  He taught at the Krishnamacharya  Yoga Mandiram.  He has extensive knowledge of the classic yoga texts and is the author of "The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga", "Yoga for the Three Stages o Life" and "Yoga Beneath the Surface".

He was a student of the father of modern yoga, Krishnamacharya, and studied under him for 33 years, from 1955 until 1988 shortly before Krishnamacharya's passing. He is Krishnamacharya's longest-standing student with one exception, Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar.

Ramaswami has published several books, including The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga (2005) which attempts to convey the full extent of Krishnamacharya's asana teachings. Ramaswami explains in the introduction to his book that many of the famous modern schools of yoga teach only a subset of Krishnamacharya's body of knowledge. The book presents what he calls Vinyasa Krama (Sanskrit for tool) yoga.

He continues by saying that to teach a fixed style of yoga, or emphasise only fixed asana sequences, diverges enormously from Krishnamacharya's style of adapting what he taught to each student. In this analysis, Krishnamacharya was a different teacher for every student, adapting to become the teacher that the student needed. Ramaswami is a registered Experienced 500 hr level Yoga Master with Yoga Alliance. He offers Teacher Training Programs at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and other places around the World.