yoga makaranda (sanskrit: योग मकरन्द​), meaning ""essence of yoga"", is a 1934 book on hatha yoga by the influential pioneer of yoga as exercise, tirumalai krishnamacharya. most of the text is a description of 42 asanas accompanied by 95 photographs of krishnamacharya and his students executing the poses. there is a brief account of practices other than asanas, which form just one of the eight limbs of classical yoga, that krishnamacharya "did not instruct his students to practice".