Krishnamacharya: "We need some who are demonstrators. However,......"

Krishnamacharya

"It is very cheerful news that we are seeing an increase in the number of people who can teach and publicise yogangasana practice. However, we must seek out and examine those who have mastered the secrets of yogadarshana and only learn from them..."

"While practicing or teaching yogangasana, one must know which asanas and pranayamas to teach to whom? how many days? for which disease? (treatment) how many inhalations and exhalations? how long to do a particular asana? which asanas for obese individuals?  which ones for lean body type? when to inhale and when to exhale? for how long? Don’t we need teachers and promoters who know these secrets?

We need some who are just demonstrators.  However, if they don’t learn these secrets and want to only promote, it will not be of much use".  
Krishnamacharya : Yogasanagalu 1941

In the past many have thought that there was an early and a late Krishnamacharya and at some point there was "Die Kehre" ( the turning), taking him from, what's often mistakenly depicted as a dynamic, one size fits all, regimented Ashtanga Krishnamacharya, to the gentler bespoke Vinyasa Krama and Vinniyoga Krishnamacharya. I've argued this was probably not the case, that Krishnamacharya was teaching individual patients and students a Vinyasa Krama at the same time he was teaching the boys of the palace Ashtanga vinyasa (groups of asana rather than fixed series). We can see the familiar Vinyasa Krama Head and Shoulder stand variations in Krishnamacharya's 1938 film footage from Mysore alongside Iyengar jumping from asana to asana. And he we find him here in 1941 asking in Yogasanagalu, how many inhalations and exhalations, how long the stay, which asana for whom... just as we saw long slow breathing, long stay options as well as supposed benefits indicated in his 1934 'Ashtanga vinyasa book' ,Yoga Makaranda.

Note too Krishnamacharya comment on demonstrations. Krishnamacharya was traveling the country at this time promoting Yoga on the behest of the Maharaja of Mysore, no doubt he was aware that it was the demonstration of asana by him and later his students ( EG. Iyengar, Jois) that people came to see and no doubt remembered rather than the more important lectures he gave on the possibilities, benefits and philosophy of yoga.