Vanda Scaravelli

Vanda Scaravelli (1908-1999) began practising yoga at the age of 40. She gained years of experience from private lessons with B.K.S. Iyengar and T.K.V. Desikachar before discovering her own approach to yoga.
Desikachar describes Vanda as the teacher who best captured and imparted the spirit of his own father, Krishnamacharya.
Vanda also shared a life-long friendship with Krishnamurti; his influence is clearly present in her path of yoga. At the request of her long-term students, Vanda Scaravelli left us with a wonderful book entitled "Awakening the Spine".