The philosophy that made
your practice

Our scholars are not academics who study yoga from the outside. They stand within the living tradition that produced Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya, curated by Dr. Alwar from the Sanskrit community of Mysore, and teaching these texts as they have always been taught: with depth, precision, and the intimacy of a tradition transmitted person to person across generations.

Son of Śrī U.Ve. Prof. M.A. Lakṣmīthāthāchārya Swami, Dr. Alwar grew up deep within the Nāthamuni Sampradāya, formed by the same exacting standards of Vedic education and śāstric learning that have shaped this lineage for generations. He does not teach these texts as literature or philosophy from the outside. He transmits them as they have been understood within this paramparā for nearly a millennium, with the depth, precision, and warmth of a scholar who has lived inside them his entire life. He is Senior Professor at the Mahārāja's Sanskrit College, Mysore, and Managing Trustee of the Saṃskṛti Foundation.

Dr. Nagaraja Rao brings a lifetime of scholarship to the Yoga Sūtras, the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Upaniṣads. Trained in both traditional gurukula and modern academic settings, he has taught at the University of Chicago, held a fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi for his contributions to translation. He is honorary editor of Sudharma, the world's only daily newspaper published in Sanskrit. Now in his eighties, he continues to teach with undiminished clarity and warmth. His particular gift is making the subtle clear without making it simple, bringing precision and philosophical depth while communicating in fluent English with an accessibility that is rare among Sanskrit scholars of his stature.

Trained in traditional gurukula education in Vedas, Vedānta, and Yogaśāstra at Veda Vijñāna Gurukulam, Bengaluru, Dr. Jayaraman subsequently earned a PhD in Sanskrit from the University of Madras, specialising in Tantrayukti, ancient Indian methods of textual construction and methodology. He served for over a decade as Director of Research at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai, and is currently Professor and Dean in the Division of Yoga and Spirituality at SVYASA Deemed University. The author of twenty books and nineteen peer-reviewed articles on yoga and Sanskrit literature, he is also the creator of Yoga-Vaiśāradī, a searchable digital repository of classical yoga texts, and Yogasya Bhāṣā, a self-learning program in Sanskrit and yoga.