Welcome to the online heart of yoga.
The ancient wisdom of Yoga teaches that Life is already given to you, you are completely loved, you are here now. It teaches that we are not separate—cannot be separate—from Nature, which sustains us in a vast interdependence with everything.
The universe comes perfectly harmonised, and is awesome in its integration and infinite existence. Our felt sense of union with the All in All is our natural state, and has been described as the state of Yoga. When you practice acknowledging this prior connection to the fullness of creation, you are doing your Yoga. Yoga is your direct participation in nurturing source.
We share the Yoga we received from our teachers, the healing power of intimate connection recaptured for our era. As each unique person practices their Yoga in the way that is right for them, they are practicing feeling this interconnection, and thus transforming human consciousness and the societies we have created on the basis of separation.
This website is our virtual home, where we offer resources that can help you do your Yoga. Not anyone else’s Yoga, but yours. The writings, courses, newsletter, videos and links on this website are here to serve your heart’s intimacy with Life. Please be in touch anytime to find a teacher near you or join the conversation. The Heart of Yoga is in all of us.
Om Shanti,
Mark Whitwell
Founder, Heart of Yoga
About the Author
Mark Whitwell was born in 1949 in Auckland, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. In 1973, he traveled to India and began a life-long study of yoga with Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar (1938–2016). Mark Whitwell’s simple mission is to give people the principles of practice that came through Tirumalai Krishnamacharya to make their Yoga authentic, powerful, and effective. Mark Whitwell is the founder of the Heart of Yoga foundation and the Heart of Yoga Peace Project, an organization dedicated to developing yoga communities in conflict zones around the world. Mark Whitwell lives between New Zealand and Fiji.
