Peter Hersnack -- a short biography

Peter Hersnack is a long time student of T.K.V. Desikachar. After spending 8 months in a study group with the physicist David Bohm in London (1967-68), Peter began a study of physics and mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. At the age of 21 he left the university to go and study with Desikachar in India. Between 1970 and 75 he stayed 4 years in Madras to pursue an individual apprenticeship with Desikachar. After his studies he lived and taught for 4 years in Malaysia, before he returned to teach in Denmark. He then lived for one year in Germany, and thirteen years in France before he and his family returned to live in Denmark last summer.

He has continued to pursue his study with Desikachar in India and in Europe, and in 1987 he obtained the Viniyoga Special Diploma for teacher trainers. He has a long experience of working in a medical and paramedical context, and for three years he worked intensively with the dancers of the National Choreographic Centre in La Rochelle. His main work is in training and in further training of teachers, a work, which he is doing in several european countries as well as in Canada.

Publications in french (all edited by Cahiers de presence d’esprit):
“Yoga et stress”, Ed. 2001
“La Chair Vivante” on Yoga physiology, Ed. 2003
“Au-délà du corps” (with TKV Desikachar and B.Viard) on the Taitiriya Upanisad, Ed. 2007