C. S. Udhayakumar

Biography

40 years of corporate industry, consultancy and teaching experience. He was an educator and consultant for Yoga Education, Life Skills and Personal Growth programs for many organizations like Madras Port Trust, National Institute of Port Management (NIPM), IOB Staff College, LIC Zonal Training Centre, Tube Products of India, TI Cycles of India, Tamilnadu Petroproducts Ltd., Carborundum Universal Ltd., Rane (I) Ltd., Ponds (I) Ltd., Tata Consultancy Services, New India Assurance, Clarke School for the mentally retarded, K.J.Hospital, BPL Sanyo, Palakkad, Palakkad Management Association, INS Agrani Naval Academy, Coimbatore and many others. Publications include a) A compiled and edited volume titled ‘Beyond Personality - Collected Works on Self Awareness and Personal Growth’ and b) ‘Useful Guidelines Concerning Yoga Practices’. Has presented and read a number of papers of Yoga, Values, Spirituality, Personal Growth, New Education etc in various international and national conferences and seminars in the country. He started his teaching career in the art and science of Yoga and Yoga Therapy in the year 1976 when he joined the YOGA ACADEMY, an offshoot of the Swami Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Center, founded by Swami Vishnudevananda who was one of the chief disciples of Swami Sivananda of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh and under the tutelage of the late Dr. B.V.Reddy. He had his vocational education and higher studies in Yoga, Yoga Therapy and allied subjects in KAIVALYADHAMA, Lonavla in Pune and also in the KYM Institute of Yoga Studies, Chennai, under the guidance of Dr. T.K.V.Desikachar, son of the legendary Mysore T. Krishnamacharya. He was also closely and intimately associated with the Krishnamurti Foundation India (KFI) and was with their new education schools both in Varanasi and Chennai for several years. He was the Founder-Director of ‘YOGAKSHETHRAM-Foundation for Yoga Studies’ in Chennai before joining the Amrita family in Coimbatore as a full time faculty in 1996.

Research Interest

Yoga Education, Self-Awareness and Personal Growth, Cultural Education, Integral Studies, Indian Culture, Heritage and Psychology, Spirituality, Education