Author of this book as В. Дешикачар is a son and student famous Кришнамачарьи - yogi, healer and philosopher standing at the sources of modern хатха-йоги. Б. К. С. Айенгар studied at Кришнамачарьи, Паттабхи Joyce and Индра Davy are founders of authoritative yoga schools. Дешикачар too created the school based on fundamental principle of studies of Кришнамачарьи : a not man must refashion itself under yoga, and yoga practices must sneak up so that they befitted to the man. A "heart of yoga" of Дешикачара is the first book helping every persons interested to work out individual practice personally for itself, taking into account the eigenstate of health, way of life, necessities and aims.Кришнамачарья called to the deep study of "Йога-сутр" Патанджали, that wholly entered this book in translation of Дешикачара and with his comments. Real edition contains also "Йоганджалисару" are thirty two verses of Кришнамачарьи, that pass essence of his studies and do "Heart of yoga" an important landmark in the chain of transmission of yoga of masters of antiquity to the modern world.