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Kausthub Desikachar

60, Greenways Road Extension, Bishop Garden, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Kausthub Desikachar Teaches

  • Flow Yoga
  • Fitness Yoga
  • Spiritually-Oriented Yoga
  • Gentle Yoga
  • Specialty Yoga

Languages

English

About Kausthub Desikachar

Dr. Kausthub Desikachar is the successor and current lineage holder of the classical Yoga tradition of T Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikachar. He is an acclaimed yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and spiritual mentor.  His objectives include the sharing of the authentic...

Dr. Kausthub Desikachar is the successor and current lineage holder of the classical Yoga tradition of T Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikachar. He is an acclaimed yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and spiritual mentor.  His objectives include the sharing of the authentic teachings of Yoga to the modern era, as well as building bridges between different modalities to promote physical, emotional social and spiritual health. 

For more than fifteen years, Kausthub has taught a multitude of students and teachers around the globe and has conducted numerous teacher training programs. 

Dr. Kausthub Desikachar began studying yoga when he was 9 years old under the guidance of his teacher and father TKV Desikachar and started teaching at the age of 13.  After completing his dual degree from the renowned Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani, he committed himself to becoming a full-time student and teacher of Yoga. Later in 2011, he concluded his doctoral studies from Psychology Department at the University of Madras, where his topic of research was “Effect of Individualised Yoga Training on Quality of Life.”

Dr. Kausthub Desikachar also works as mentor and offers clients astute and effective solutions for all sorts of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual illnesses. He combines his classical training in Yoga and Ayurveda, his modern education of psychology, and his interactions with traditional practitioners worldwide, to offer optimum and effective synergetic solutions to address a wide range of problems. His approach includes a wide range of tools including postures (asana), breath regulation (pranayama), meditation (), dietary recommendations ( ), lifestyle suggestions ( ), chanting (mantra), visualisations / affirmations (), special energetic seals (mudra), symbolic gestures () and guided self-inquiry (). 

As a Yoga educator, Dr. Kausthub Desikachar is known for his remarkable, deep and knowledge and his ability to present the ancient teachings in a way that is profound as well as applicable for modern day practitioners. He deals with each student with the respect, compassion, and dignity,  and their capacity for growth and transformation. His teachings are especially beneficial for yoga teachers and yoga teacher trainers as he helps them grasp the fullness and deep insights of the ancient teachings so that they are able to apply them in a competent and sincere way.

Dr. Kausthub Desikachar is currently an advisor to the Korean Yoga AlliancePranamanasyoga  (a Yoga School in Spain), Be Yoga also the  Advisor to Platinum Hospital, Mumbai. He is also an Adjunct Faculty for  Council For Yoga Training Education and Research (CYTER) at the Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Pondicherry. He is also the Editorial Board of Annals of Yoga and Physical newly initiated peer-reviewed open access journal based in the USA, with an aim to develop a platform for innovative researchers working in the areas of Yoga and Physical Training.

In the past, he has also been an advisor to the IAYT and also a Patron to the British Wheel of Yoga. 

He has also authored and co-authored numerous books on yoga, such as "The Heart of Asana: A comprehensive manual on Classical Yoga Postures” and a biography his grandfather, the great yoga Acharya T. Krishnamacharya, called "The Yoga of the Yogi". 

Apart from Yoga Teaching, Kausthub is also an avid photographer, inspirational and poet. 

First Registered August 2017
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider
First Registered August 2017
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider

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