This is the homepage of Yoga Centre. At Yoga Centre yoga is being taught according to the yoga tradition of T. Krishnamarchaya. Yoga Centre is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The tradition

 The yoga that is being taught at Yoga Centre goes back to the main source of modern yoga history: T.Krishnamarchaya. He was the teacher of B.K.S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, Indra Devi, T.K.V. Desikachar and A.G. Mohan among others.

 The following is an excerpt from an interview with T.K.V. Desikachar in which he very clearly explains what is so unique about his father's teachings:

    Question: What makes Krishnamacharya's yoga so unique?

    T.K.V. Desikachar's answer:

 What makes my father's yoga teachings unique is his insistence on attending to each individual and to his or her uniqueness. If we respect each person individually, it naturally means we will always start from where each person currently is...

... The essence of my father's teachings is this: it is not that the person needs to accommodate him- or herself to yoga, but rather the yoga practice must be tailored to fit each person. I would even go so far as to say that this is what makes my father's approach different from most of the others around today...

... My father taught us more ways to approach a person in yoga than I have found anywhere else. Who should teach whom? When? And what? These are the important questions to be asked in beginning a practice. But underlying all these is the most important question of all: How can the power of the breath be utilized? That is something quite exceptional; nowhere else is the breath given so much importance, and our work has proven that the breath is a wonder drug, if I may use this term.

    (from the book:  The Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikachar; Inner Traditions International, 1995)