WELCOME to the website of Trevor Leggett Adhyatma Yoga Trust (‘TLAYT’).
Trevor Leggett made provision in his will for the establishment of a charitable trust to promote the knowledge of Yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, Zen, Judo and Shogi. He died in August 2000 and in March 2001 TLAYT was formed and subsequently registered with the Charity Commission (No: 1086172).
Trevor studied Vedanta and the traditional Yoga of the Self for over sixty years and for eighteen years he was a pupil of Hari Prasad Shastri. He lived for a number of years in Japan where he learnt Japanese and studied Judo and Zen. He was the first foreigner to hold 6th Dan from the Kodokan in Tokyo and he held 4th Dan in Shogi, Japanese Chess. From 1946 until his retirement in 1970 he was head of the Japanese Service of the BBC.
He was the author and translator of marvellous books on Yoga, Zen, Judo and Shogi and , in addition, for many years gave talks and wrote articles on these subjects. The copyright to all Trevor’s works was left to TLAYT and the Trust has worked steadily, in partnership with the Buddhist Society Trust and M-Y Books Limited, to bring them all back in print at affordable prices both in high quality softback editions as well in some cases as eBooks and, for two of the books of training stories, as audiobooks.
Extracts from many of Trevor’s books can be found here under Yoga and Zen as are a number of his recorded talks together with their transcriptions. Details of all of Trevor’s books can be found on our related website tlayt.org