The appreciation of how much all of T Krishnamacharya’s students have contributed to Yoga in the West is reflected in
the practice, study and teaching of all those who have had the opportunity to work with his students or any of their students.
“If you have learned something really well, then the way you express it will not be the same way you learned it.”
- T Krishnamacharya

The aim of dharmadownloads is to honour this commitment and dedication to the continuing interest in the teachings of
T Krishnamacharya as received from his students, especially his longest serving students TKV Desikachar and S Ramaswami.
It offers support in the form of a practical opensource facility and is for all interested in wishing to freely and easily access
or contribute resources to support Yoga study and practice, either as a complement to existing work with a teacher or,
accepting that this is not always possible, as another route meanwhile.

TKV Desikachar once described dharma as having three aspects:
“Dharma supports you, Dharma stops you from falling, Dharma picks you up after you have fallen.”

It is with this feeling for dharma that these resources are offered as a support in the spirit of community rather than competition.
As TKV Desikachar expressed it in a talk given in May 2002 around the theme ‘The Ocean of Yoga - From the Parts to the Whole’:
"The current world of Yoga seems to be made up of many small parts, each one competing with and
often confusing the other. This is not consistent with the spirit of Yoga, whose very meaning is ‘to unite’.”

Dharmadownloads hopefully reflects this view and hope for how Yoga students, as if a global Yoga Community,
can link in both Spirit and Action inside and outside of each of our immediate Yoga families.

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