Yoga Maiyam

Yoga Maiyam Foundation for Healing and Healthy Living is a registered Charitable Trust,  founded by Dr.E.R.Gopalakrishnan  and  Smt.Thulsi Gopalakrishnan, The Managing Trustee.

The primary objectives of the centre are:                             

1. to be a link in the long unbroken chain of authentic transmission of traditional knowledge of Yoga  
2. to make the knowledge of yoga and allied studies accessible to all strata of the society by removing the elitist stigma attached to it
3. to focus and work on the Tamil contribution to yoga and allied studies.

Dr.E.R.Gopalakrishnan is a former Director (Honorary),Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram Institute of Yoga Studies, Chennai.He is a multi faceted personality- an academician, actor / director of Koothu-P-Pattarai in early 1980’s, trained in classical Carnatic Music and passionate with literary movements.His association with stalwarts like Play write  Na.Muthuswamy, Dr.Padma Subrahmaniam  and others have enabled him to expand the application of  yoga beyond the traditional domains it is associated with.