Avtor etoy knigi t. K. V. Deshikachar yavlyaetsya synom i uchenikom znamenitogo Krishnamachar'i — yoga, celitelya i filosofa, stoyavshego u istokov sovremennoy hatha-yogi. U Krishnamachar'i uchilis' B. K. S. Ayengar, Pattabhi Dzhoys i Indra Devi — osnovateli avtoritetnyh yogicheskih shkol. Deshikachar tozhe sozdal svoyu shkolu, osnovannuyu na fundamental'nom principe ucheniya Krishnamachar'i: ne chelovek dolzhen perekraivat' sebya pod yogu, a yogicheskie praktiki dolzhny podbirat'sya tak, chtoby oni podhodili cheloveku. "Serdce yogi" Deshikachara — pervaya kniga, pomogayushchaya kazhdomu zhelayushchemu razrabotat' individual'nuyu praktiku lichno dlya sebya, s uchetom sobstvennogo sostoyaniya zdorov'ya, obraza zhizni, potrebnostey i celey. Krishnamachar'ya prizyval k glubokomu izucheniyu "Yoga-sutr" Patandzhali, kotorye celikom voshli v etu knigu v perevode Deshikachara i s ego kommentariyami. Nastoyashchee izdanie soderzhit takzhe "Yogandzhalisaru" — tridcat' dva stiha Krishnamachar'i, kotorye peredayut sut' ego ucheniya i delayut "Serdce yogi" vazhnoy vekhoy v cepi peredachi yogi masterov drevnosti sovremennomu miru.
