Desa Books specialises in bringing the ancient and philosophical teachings of yoga to a modern day reader. These are books for the serious student, active academic, enquiring yogi or simply the interested reader.

Yoga for children, yoga for cancer, yoga for therapy, yoga for bad backs, yoga for mental health, yoga for the environment, yoga for meditation. Never has there been more need for Yoga to work hard at helping us to achieve harmony with ourselves and the world.

Yoga teachers and students can use the books to study, practise, reflect, journal, understand the purpose and classical sequencing or vinyasa krama of asana.

Colin Dunsmuir

Co-founder, consultant and publisher.

Colin Dunsmuir is a teacher trainer for yoga teachers and yoga therapists. He specialises in yoga for cancer and end of life, many physical and psychological ailments, mental health, meditation and yoga for young people. He has worked in hospices, hospitals, pupil referral units and schools and one-to-one individualised care is his primary approach.

Colin embarked on his first Yoga Therapy Training in India that soon led him to study yoga therapy with the late T.K.V. Desikachar, the son of Professor T. Krishnamacharya – known as the grandfather of modern yoga that we know today.

Colin is director of the BWY London Yoga Festival and sits on the Professional Specific Board for Yoga Therapy with the Complimentary Natural Health Care Council (CNHC), and is a committee member of The British Council of Yoga Therapy. He is currently in the process of setting up The Professional Association of Yoga Therapy in order to ensure ongoing high standards of Yoga Therapy in the UK.

Learn more: http://trueyoga.co.uk

Miranda Taylor

Miranda Taylor is a mother, writer and yoga therapist working in west London. She trained as a journalist in Paris with the International Herald Tribune, went on to be the editor of two travel magazines, Traveller and Geographical, before giving up full-time office work to look after two amazing kids and train as a Yoga Therapist with Colin Dunsmuir. Miranda specializes in Vedic chanting, one to one yoga sessions to evolve students in their every day lives and working with kids of all ages in schools.

Contact: miranda.taylor@me.com

Bernard Bouanchaud

Bernard Bouanchaud first became fascinated by Eastern wisdom when working as an architect

and interior designer in Iran in the early 1960’s. Upon returning to France, in 1966, Bernard spent the next ten years immersed in the study of yoga in Paris. It was at this time that he first met T.K.V.Desikachar. This meeting became a defining moment of Bernard’s life and began a period of regularly study in Chennai, where he went to learn from this respected Indian Professor and disciple of T.Krishnamacharya - his father and the great contemporary yogi, who died in 1989 at the age of 101. These studies focused on the postures, the breathing techniques, the therapeutic application of the practices, and the fundamental texts of yoga.

Upon becoming a yoga teacher, and then a teacher trainer and lecturer, Bernard continued his studies as closely as possible to their Indian sources. An author of many books on yoga, he now spends his time between writing, private teaching, and the training of yoga teachers.

The message that he wants to pass on in simple: to live and share serenity here and now, in family, professional and social life.