Avtor etoy knigi t. K. V. Deshikachar yavlyaetsya synom i uchenikom znamenitogo Krishnamachari - yoga, tselitelya i filosofa, stoyavshego u istokov sovremennoy khatkha-yogi. U Krishnamachari uchilis B. K. S. Ayengar, Pattabkhi Dzhoys i Indra Devi - osnovateli avtoritetnykh yogicheskikh shkol. Deshikachar tozhe sozdal svoyu shkolu, osnovannuyu na fundamentalnom printsipe ucheniya Krishnamachari: ne chelovek dolzhen perekraivat sebya pod yogu, a yogicheskie praktiki dolzhny podbiratsya tak, chtoby oni podkhodili cheloveku. "Serdtse yogi" Deshikachara - pervaya kniga, pomogayushchaya kazhdomu zhelayushchemu razrabotat individualnuyu praktiku lichno dlya sebya, s uchetom sobstvennogo sostoyaniya zdorovya, obraza zhizni, potrebnostey i tseley._x000D_ _x000D_ Krishnamacharya prizyval k glubokomu izucheniyu "Yoga-sutr" Patandzhali, kotorye tselikom voshli v etu knigu v perevode Deshikachara i s ego kommentariyami. Nastoyashchee izdanie soderzhit takzhe "Yogandzhalisaru" - tridtsat dva stikha Krishnamachari, kotorye peredayut sut ego ucheniya i delayut "Serdtse yogi" vazhnoy vekhoy v tsepi peredachi yogi masterov drevnosti sovremennomu miru.