Home Welcome to the Ocean of Yoga! The Ocean of Yoga is a website that was created to support the teaching of Chase Bossart and Todd R. Stellfox both of whom have studied extensively at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai, India. We hope this website will serve as a platform to help us share the rich teachings that we have learned from Mr. TKV Desikachar, Kausthub Desikachar, and other teachers at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram with other Yoga students and teachers. Chase teaches in the San Francisco, CA area and Todd teaches in the Santa Barbara, CA area, however, you'll often find us teaching nationwide. The Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram was founded in 1976 by Mr. TKV Desikachar to honor his teacher and father T. Krishnamacharaya who is commonly regarded as the most influential Yogi of modern times. During the 101 years of his life, his dedicated teaching inspired thousands of practitioners worldwide and through his students (including Indra Devi, BKS Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and his son, TKV Desikachar), this "master of masters" has played a vital role in shaping how Yoga is practiced and understood today. The breadth and depth of T. Krishnamacharya's expertise and knowledge was vast, not only was his expertise in Yoga texts, Indian knowledge systems and philosophy unsurpassed, but also he was a powerful healer and wise spiritual master. The teachings of T. Krishnamacharya are so extensive and have touched so many lives, that they can be compared to the vastness of an ocean.