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10 Facts About Srivatsa Ramaswami

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Srivatsa Ramaswami was born on 1939 and is a teacher of Vinyasa Krama yoga.

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Srivatsa Ramaswami studied for 33 years under the "grandfather of modern yoga", Krishnamacharya.

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Srivatsa Ramaswami has run workshops in America at the Esalen Institute, the Himalayan Institute and many other centres.

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Srivatsa Ramaswami was born in Palayamcottai, Tirunelveli Dt in 1939 into a religious family that practised ritual and chanting, following the Vedanta philosophy.

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Srivatsa Ramaswami's father was a personal friend of Krishnamacharya, "the father of modern yoga".

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Srivatsa Ramaswami studied yoga in Madras under Krishnamacharya for 33 years from 1955.

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Srivatsa Ramaswami has run workshops in America at the Esalen Institute, the Himalayan Institute and many other centres.

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Srivatsa Ramaswami is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

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Yoga scholar Mark Singleton notes that Ramaswami asked Krishnamacharya where he could obtain the supposedly ancient text Yoga Rahasya that Krishnamacharya constantly cited in his teaching, alongside other supposedly lost texts like the Yoga Kurunta.

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Srivatsa Ramaswami concluded from this, and from the continual changes in the supposed text, that it was Krishnamacharya's invention.

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