Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram

Founded in 1976, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram is a charity based in Chennai, India working on health, mental health, disability.

Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) is a non-profit public charitable trust founded in 1976 by TKV Desikachar in Chennai, India. It provides personalised yoga therapy for adults and children, runs yoga teacher training programmes in yoga, healing chants and yoga therapy, and hosts intensives and courses on yoga philosophy, asana, pranayama and meditation. Through its MITRA division it offers free yoga training to socially and economically underprivileged children and adults in Chennai and elsewhere in India. KYM operates from two locations in Chennai, Mandaveli and Kilpauk, and holds recognitions including from the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga and the Government of Tamil Nadu.