TKV Desikachar

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar (1938–2016), who often used the initials TKV, was an India-born author and yoga pioneer best known for viniyoga, a self-empowering approach tailored to a student’s emotional state, physical condition, cultural background, age, and interests. As the son of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga, TKV was devoted to his father’s teachings and later founded the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, a yoga center in Madras, India.