Gopala Krishna

Gopala Krishna is director of the Sivananda Yoga Center in Ottawa, Canada. He earned his B.M. from the university of Waterloo and worked for a variety of prominent high-tech firms over the years. An artist and computer consultant, he took his first yoga lesson in 1973 and began to study in the Sivananda tradition with Swami Vishnu-devananda in 1978. He gave up his business career in 1993 at Swami Vishnu-devananda's death to devote himself full-time to his practice and to teach others. His book, The Yogi: Portraits of Swami Vishnu-devananda, is one of the results of that choice.