M.A. Narasimhan

M. A. Narasimhan, Director, Itihasa Bharati, Mysore, is a science graduate holding Masters in Education with specialization in advanced psychology and research methodology, and also in Sanskrit. He has specialized in the Indian philosophical systems and the various practices of yoga, and is a disciple of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He is a teacher of Transcendental Meditation, and has taught the TM technique to more than 20,000 people and trained more than 1,000 teachers of Transcendental Meditation.
He is a research scholar specializing in the fields of Indian culture and the Sciences of ancient India. With a considerable number of books, monographs, and papers in the fields of Indian history, Science, Sanskrit and philosophy to his credit, he is also the editor of journals such as ‘Ithihasa samachar’, ‘Ithihasa Rashmi’. He is the vice president of Anantha Research Foundation, Mysore, whose purpose is to bring the wisdom of traditional Indian teachings to contemporary students all over the world.
He and his sister Dr.M.A.Jayashree, are travelling all over the world in Europe and USA in recent years conducting workshops in different Yoga shalas on chanting and philosophy of Yoga sutras of Maharshi Patanjali, Bhagavad Gita to the yoga practitioners of the world. She also gives classical karnatic vocal music demonstration lectures for the western audience and teaches spoken Sanskrit to the yoga practitioners in India and abroad.