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The Heart of YogaFrom The Archives: Are You Born In The Wrong Body?Teaching at Liliana Lakshmi's teaching training, this question arises.. hear the response. In this episode, Mark explores how Yoga can provide a sense of unity and belonging amidst conflict and division in the world. He emphasizes that Yoga is not about seeking or trying to get somewhere, but recognizing and participating in the beauty, power and extraordinary intelligence that is always there, the wholeness and the harmony. Mark argues that religious seeking and presumption of separation are the root of conflict, and Yoga dissolve this illusion. He shares the principles from Krishnamacharya on adapting Yo...
2024-08-1556 min
The Heart of YogaDiscovering Wholeness and Beauty Amidst SufferingThis episode features Kathrin, a Yoga practitioner and mother of two living in Germany. She shares how she came to Yoga to relieve suffering during the pandemic, and through her daily practice discovered a profound intimacy with her own body and breath. Kathrin describes how Yoga helped her shift from feelings of "not being enough" to simply receiving and participating in each moment just as it is. She and Mark discuss how Yoga connects us to the miracle of life, and talk about translating this experience into everyday life and language. Key topics include releasing s...
2024-07-2451 min
The Heart of YogaAlready Free: The Life of Yogini Acharya Akia MerrittThis episode features yogini Akia Merritt who shares her life journey growing up in Miami and discovering her capital S Self through yoga sadhana. Akiya recounts the journey from aspiring fashion designer in New York City to becoming a capital-Y Yoga teacher, and the pitfalls of the industry along the way. Relatable to everyone whose journey has taken them far from where they started, and then back home with compassion. Mark and Akia discuss: - Akia’s childhood in poverty, family struggles with addiction, and dangerous neighborhood in Miami - Her...
2024-07-1042 min
The Heart of YogaWomen, Life, Freedom ژن، ژیان، ئازادیThis episode features a powerful and insightful conversation between Mark and a Yogini living in Iran, who we refer to as Sarah for her safety. They discuss the ongoing revolution and protests in Iran, along with the government brutality and oppression people, especially women, face daily. Sarah shares her personal experiences surviving the turmoil, finding refuge through community, and taking action for freedom through sharing yoga's teachings. This episode offers an inside look at Iran's struggle, the universal need for connection, and the hope that comes from within through truly knowing oneself.
2024-07-0350 min
The Heart of YogaFrom The Archive: Mark at The Omega InstituteThis episode is a recording of a talk Mark Whitwell gave at the Omega Institute in New York in 2008. He speaks of Reality itself as an intelligent nurturing force, like a mother. Yoga is our direct participation in this nurturing reality, not an effort to achieve some future spiritual goal. This episode is a dharmic reset-reminder of yoga as participation in union, merging strength and receptivity just as we came into being ourselves through the union of our parents. Mark encourages listeners to see that any pain or difficult circumstance in life is ultimately healing an...
2024-06-1952 min
The Heart of YogaGod And Sex: Part 3Welcome back to “God and Sex” book club part 3. Mark and Rosalind argue about themes of the book around relationship, love and intimacy. Mark goes to the root of things as usual, connecting up the separate self to how relationship chaos plays out, and how yoga intervenes. We discuss the longing for a “soulmate” and whether this idea is useful, reflect on the China teacher training, and a few more controversial subjects relating to intimacy. Be aware some of these subjects may be connected with painful emoti...
2024-06-1354 min
The Heart of YogaAndrew Raba: Keeping Safe with Psychics and SeersIn this week's episode of the Heart of Yoga Podcast, Mark and Andy Raba explore the world of psychics, seers, shamans and sages. As director of the Yoga Education in Schools Charitable Trust in New Zealand, Andy leads initiatives to bring yoga-based health programs to young people in NZ and abroad.With a Master's degree and over a decade of experience fostering literacy in NZ schools, Andrew has extensively published on yoga and meditation and is dedicated to bringing yoga's benefits to students' wellbeing. They discuss how to discern truth from charlatanry, the ethics around predicting the...
2024-03-1452 min
The Heart of YogaNo Such Thing as A Thoughtless State: Embracing Presence Over Ideals in Yoga with Eva KošćakIn this episode, Mark interviews Eva about her journey discovering Yoga and music. Eva shares how she was classically trained in cello as a child but hated the competitive pressure. She dropped music for 18 years until finding Yoga, which helped her rediscover enjoyment and presence. A few years into Yoga, Eva spontaneously picked up guitar and started playing purely for pleasure, posting videos online. Mark and Eva explore how yoga catalyzed Eva's musical reawakening. Yoga helped Eva let go of striving for perfection and future attainment, and instead play music for the joy of each m...
2023-11-271h 04
The Rose WomanPeace In and Through the Body with Mark WhitwellIn this special Thanksgiving episode, join us as we rediscover unity through the profound teachings of yoga, featuring a thought-provoking conversation with Mark Whitwell, a seasoned yoga teacher with over four decades of experience. He draws inspiration from the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar. This episode guides us through a journey of understanding our interconnectedness and the transformative potential of ancient wisdom in contemporary life. Join us as we explore the relevance of yoga in addressing historical conflicts, envision religious education through yoga practices, and contemplate the power dynamics within ourselves. This Thanksgiving, listen in a...
2023-11-211h 08
The Heart of YogaFrom Recognition to Embodiment: A Yogi's Journey with Irina EspositoIn this episode of the Heart of Yoga podcast, Mark has an insightful conversation with his student Irina Esposito about her journey with Yoga. The cosmos and everything in the cosmos is obviously a pure intelligence, energy and an intrinsic harmony. In religious language of ancient India it is Shiva Shakti… or all that is, and there are no problems. This was Irina’s sudden realization. It hit her “like a done of bricks”. This is the realization of an ordinary life of anybody when the Hatha Yoga Tantras are practiced daily, actually, naturally and non obsessively. Lif...
2023-11-1447 min
The Heart of YogaKurtis Goodwolf x Mark Whitwell: A Voyage to India, Mark's First StepsIn this episode, we dive deep into Mark's transformative journey to India. Mark shares his personal experiences and first impressions upon arriving in this vibrant and diverse country. He discusses how The Beatles' presence in Rishikesh influenced his interest in Indian wisdom traditions, making it a global phenomenon. Mark reflects on the powerful impact of rock music from England and the U.S. on his life, particularly highlighting the musical genius of Ray Davies from The Kinks. He opens up about his initial moments in India, painting a vivid picture of the sights, sounds, and emotions that...
2023-09-0742 min
The Heart of YogaYoga Adapted to Cultural Context: Japan with Minami TakashimaOur guest today is our wonderful collaborator in Japan, Minami Takashima. Minami is a yogini and heart of Yôga teacher, teaching in the traditions of the hathayoga non dual Tantra. She has written the introduction to the Japanese second edition of Mark Whitwell’s Yôga Heart and teaches throughout Japan and the world. Born in Sapporo, Japan, she found that early life spiritual awakenings were not really helping with the pain of corporate life and socialization, but were rather making society’s misalignment with nature’s flow even more obvious and miserable. One day, she...
2023-07-0740 min
Kamalaya "Wellness for Life" PodcastWellness for Life podcast “What is Yoga Good for?” with Mark WhitwellIn our June episode of Kamalaya’s ‘Wellness for Life’ podcast, we delve into the wonderful world of yoga and explore its multiple benefits for the mind, body and soul. Karina Stewart, Chief Wellness Officer and Founder of Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary on Koh Samui, Thailand talks to Mark Whitwell, who has taught yoga for over four decades throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, Fiji and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga. Together with Karina, they uncover such topics as: What is yoga History of yoga The benefits of...
2023-06-2757 min
The Heart of YogaThe Yoga Confessions - Mark interviews Rosalind Atkinson (#48)Mark Whitwell interviews Rosalind Atkinson about her life with yoga and realisations. In particular, Mark asks about her academic studies of english literature, especially the mystic poet William Blake, and the relevance of these studies to her life in yoga. This episode will be of interest to anyone with a mixed experience in academia or poetry, who is interested in the yogic process of making inspiration relevant to our lives right now. We also discuss the last two years of teaching around the world through zoom, and end with a little teaser about a new...
2023-02-141h 12
The Heart of YogaHow to be a Yoga Teacher with Maja Dakskobler and Mark Whitwell (#45)This podcast tells the story of Maja’s transition from social activism to Yoga revelation. How Yoga becomes the means to enacting the change we want to see. As Gandhi said.. “be the change you want to see.” In this conversation we hear once again the process to become an actual Yoga teacher in real life and community. From Sloviana Maja’s background and society has had its own traumas and horrific trials. Life has been difficult. Maja speaks of her personal victory in the midst of societal patterning, hostility and despair. As a government public h...
2022-06-231h 02
The Heart of YogaFinding Our Own Sadhana with Manisha (#44)In this episode we are graced by world-friend & yogini without borders Manisha Lebel. Yoga Teacher, Naturopath, Herbalist & Wisdom Holder. Manisha and Rosalind discuss how Manisha's extensive yoga practice, teaching and academic research backgrounds resonated straightaway with the breath principles Mark was passing on. We talk about being an outsider, New Zealand colonial patterning, people pleasing (especially as women), and how we can cut through indoctrination and authoritarianism of all kinds and stand in our own ground. We cut through the illusions of generational barriers to express our heartfelt gratitude for the friendship of each other.
2022-05-111h 20
The Heart of YogaFinding Our Own Sadhana with ManishaIn this episode we are graced by world-friend & yogini without borders Manisha Lebel. Yoga Teacher, Naturopath, Herbalist & Wisdom Holder. Manisha and Rosalind discuss how Manisha's extensive yoga practice, teaching and academic research backgrounds resonated straightaway with the breath principles Mark was passing on. We talk about being an outsider, New Zealand colonial patterning, people pleasing (especially as women), and how we can cut through indoctrination and authoritarianism of all kinds and stand in our own ground. We cut through the illusions of generational barriers to express our heartfelt gratitude for the friendship of e...
2022-05-101h 20
The Heart of YogaBecoming a Yoga Teacher "Capital Y" (#43)How do we make the shift from practitioner to teacher? Who should become a teacher? How do we make sure we don't become "One more monkey" in the yoga industrial complex? How to keep the heart in yoga? Mark interviews Andrew about his experience of this process and emergence from the middle-class massage into a life of meaning, play, & subversive subtlety as a practitioner & teacher. Andrew talks about his current project offering yoga in high schools for both students and teachers, drawing on his own experience as a disillusioned teenager chafing against the restrictions of school and...
2022-04-231h 04The Heart of YogaHow to Find a Yoga Teacher''How to find a good yoga teacher? How do you find a teacher that you trust, and can generate a connection with? Not only that, but find a teacher that does not see themselves in a position of power and does not have your monetary value as student in their ’business’ as a priority?" In this episode Mark and Rosalind talk about this most basic of questions, along with the even more basic questions of why we would even want a yoga teacher, and what that is anyway. Some aspects we cover: - The ori...
2022-04-0456 min
The Heart of YogaYogi Jeremiah Brimlow, Urban Angel of New York in conversation with MarkFrom the banks of the holy Ganga to the East Village, Manhattan, Jeremiah Brimlow and Mark’s friendship has flourished. Jeremiah is a bridge of the ancient world to the modern times, of east and west, but also of the early days of yoga arriving in New York City to the current situation. Mark and Jeremiah reflect on the shifts they have seen, on the legacy of the US counterculture, and staying in the pure essence of spirituality in a confused world of spiritual business. Jeremiah is the Urban Angel because he does just that. In this episode you will hear...
2022-01-051h 13
The Heart of YogaIntimacy with Life with Malika Warda and Mark WhitwellMalika Warda is a mystic Yogini poet currently residing in the land of ancient light, Western Australia, and co-founder of the extraordinary yoga, meditation and sound healing studio Cntrspace in Perth. She is the author of a book of poetry by the same name, a photographer, and a deep explorer of the human experience, drawing on her Yogic, Palestinian and Australian Indigenous heritage. Malika and Mark speak about her journey to find the real depth Yoga offers, the impact of finding it on her relationships with self and others, the unfolding of a profound yogic sexuality, and healing the...
2021-12-1835 min
The Heart of YogaDevaraj and Mark on Yoga and ReligionWhat is the relationship between Yoga and religion? Following on from last week’s episode with Janet Marshall talking about Yoga and Catholicism, this week we are honoured to be joined by Devaraj from Chennai, speaking from his perspective about the relationship between religion and Yoga. Is Yoga Hinduism? How do the two intersect? Devaraj was born and lives in the city where Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar taught for many years, and where they established the Krishanamacharya Yoga Mandiram, there to this day. He holds a fascinating perspective on Yoga and how it has empowered his...
2021-12-0749 min
The Heart of YogaYoga as the Practical Means to Actualize Scripture with Janet MarshallMark Whitwell discusses with Yoga Teacher Janet Marshall of California the process of becoming a Yogini and Transmitter of Yoga. Janet talks about how Yoga helped her to actually understand for herself what was being talked about in the sacred text of her religious culture. They discuss going beyond the restrictions of the usual life, and surviving getting lost in the sea of Yoga knowledge and coming back to the simplicity of the heart.Janet Marshall is a mother of three and Yoga Teacher in Southern California, and is deeply versed in Yoga philosophy and the Yoga...
2021-12-011h 22
The Heart of YogaYoga Without the Struggle with Mark and RosalindYoga is not seeking for a future idealism. Yoga is participation in the given Reality (capital R). The beauty, the wonder, the power, the harmony that is intrinsic to your life. Yoga is not to use the body or the mind to seek. Yoga is to give the body and all ordinary conditions over to the capital-R Reality, which is its context. The collaboration of great luminaries has freed yoga from the unnecessary struggle that leaves so many people injured or disappointed. Mark and Rosalind discuss the implications of Yoga without struggle. In this episode you will h...
2021-10-191h 14
The Heart of YogaYoga and Psychedelics with Andrew Raba and Mark WhitwellSince psychedelics first escaped the research environment and sparked the counter-culture in the mid twentieth century, they have been aligned with the traditions of the East. But how do Yoga and psychedelics relate to each other? Are they complementary? Or antagonistic? Mark and Andy discuss the original counterculture, the current "psychedelic renaissance" and latest applications to mental health, as well as their own experiences. In this episode you will hear... 01.32 High school Yoga catching on. The Divine is not located elsewhere. The colonization of spirit based cultures. 08:00 Scr...
2021-09-271h 11
The Heart of YogaFrom Addiction to Freedom with Simone KingMark and Simone discuss the roots of addiction, its cause and its cure. Simone relates her journey through her husband's early death and being mother to three little boys through to adulthood. Simone holds a PhD in nursing and works in the field of chronic pain. She is the author of Yoga Rx for the 12 Steps, and working on a new book on helping friends and family deal with addiction in their loved ones. Simone's story is a reminder that Motherhood is yoga. Our teacher Krishnamacharya would say that mothers are the nurturers of the community, therefore they must be nur...
2021-09-191h 06
Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 11Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3105 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 10Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3106 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 9Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3106 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 8Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3105 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 7Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3106 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 6Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3106 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 5Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3105 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 4Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3105 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 3Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3106 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 2Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3105 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Mike Bucher and The Universe | Episode 1Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'. Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship. He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album co...
2021-08-3106 min
The Heart of YogaIntimacy with the Living World, with Kelsey BarrettKelsey Barrett is a modern-day witch. She is a practicing herbalist and Yogini. Mark says: “In previous centuries she would have been burnt at the stake for her strange powers that threatened the knowledge authority of orthodoxy. She would have been shunned to the outskirts of the town, a forest dweller with twigs and moss in her hair and strange garb. These days the public realize she has useful healing powers, so allow her to enter the town or village.” Kelsey combines medicinal herbs, Yoga and intimacy arts to help her friends navigate the...
2021-08-081h 16
The Heart of YogaIt’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)In this week’s episode, Mark and Rosalind talk about the expansion of consciousness that happened in the 60s and beyond, “on wings of song.” It was the Beatles going to Rishikesh that first took Mark to India, and we tease out these connections between the two “freedom systems” of Yoga and rock and roll. We listen to the Kinks with the first use of sitar-like drone on a western pop song (“See My Friends”) and talk about Little Richard’s riotous performances as group therapy for a repressed society. Can rock and roll be legitimately...
2021-05-121h 08
The Heart of YogaOn Board the Yoga Bus with Joseph LauricellaAs yoga studios shut down across the world, yoga teacher Joseph Lauricella came untethered from his Chicago teaching space, yet he wanted to find a safe way to be in Nature and continue to share practices of breath and intimacy with yourself with people. The ‘The Yoga Bus’ project was born. Continuing public education into Yoga as spiritual practice, so much more than fitness. Joseph Lauricella is the author of 3am Bull Rider, a memoir about living on the road across the United States in 1995, Codi and the Maple Tree, a children’s book b...
2021-04-231h 20
The Heart of YogaHow to Be a Person: with Mark Whitwell and Andrew RabaMark sits down again with his friend Andrew Raba to talk about education, cultishness, ambition, choosing a career path, the mess that is our early twenties, psychedelics, and learning Yoga. What is self-understanding? Where do we find it? Is ambition a positive or negative quality? How do we know what to do with our lives? What is Yoga exactly and how can it help? How do I find my natural directions? Mark and Andy discuss these questions and others, under the overarching theme of Yoga and the empowerment of self-responsibility, making the choice to love and to...
2021-03-251h 09
The Heart of YogaYoga, Love and Grief with Durga Julia SanchezIn this week’s episode we are joined by the eternal warm love presence of Durga Julia Sánchez, musician, yogini, and inspiration. Durga speaks to us from her home country of Colombia of her extraordinary heart-connection with her beloved teacher and husband Ramgiri, and the immense process of courage that is calling us all to open our heart to one another. And of the heart-wrenching process of grief that we must go through when that love transitions from in the body to the formless, as it will for us all. And the role of Yoga in all...
2021-02-261h 04
Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell and Ana Berry | From Yoga as escape to Yoga as embraceIn this episode, Mark Whitwell sits down (over Zoom) with his dear long-time friend Ana Berry: musician, media presenter, actress, Yoga teacher and mother.
Ana describes growing up in Oklahoma and the saving influence of jazz and gospel, and the imprint of culture upon her mother as a beauty queen and TV personality.
From Hollywood to New York, her search for Yoga that didn’t just exacerbate body self-hatred culminated in meeting Mark Whitwell in a class in LA, followed by initiation into the ancient roots of Yoga with Mark Whitwell at the Kumbh Mela in...
2021-02-171h 05
The Heart of YogaFrom Yoga as escape to Yoga as embrace — Mark Whitwell and Ana BerryIn this episode, Mark sits down (over Zoom) with his dear long-time friend Ana Berry: musician, media presenter, actress, Yoga teacher and mother. Ana describes growing up in Oklahoma and the saving influence of jazz and gospel, and the imprint of culture upon her mother as a beauty queen and TV personality. From Hollywood to New York, her search for Yoga that didn’t just exacerbate body self-hatred culminated in meeting Mark in a class in LA, followed by initiation into the ancient roots of Yoga with Mark at the Kumbh Mela in India. Wh...
2021-02-141h 05
Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Life is Spirals - Melissa Forbes, Yogini, Artist, Yantra CreatorA special edition of the Heart of Yoga podcast as Melissa Forbes speaks about her life as an artist and Yoga practitioner and her friendship with UG Krishnamurti.
How do we describe him?
It’s difficult, but with love and gratitude, delight and humour, Melissa and Mark Whitwell reminisce about their unusual friend - Melissa travelled with UG for the last five years of his life as his companion and “balance.”
She speaks about the power of art to help people use their right brain instead of the dominant left-brain, her obsession with spiral...
2021-02-0954 min
The Heart of YogaLife is Spirals - Melissa Forbes, Yogini, Artist, Yantra CreatorA special edition of the Heart of Yoga podcast as Melissa Forbes speaks about her life as an artist and Yoga practitioner and her friendship with UG Krishnamurti. How do we describe him? It’s difficult, but with love and gratitude, delight and humour, Melissa and Mark reminisce about their unusual friend - Melissa travelled with UG for the last five years of his life as his companion and “balance.” She speaks about the power of art to help people use their right brain instead of the dominant left-brain, her obsession with spirals as the...
2021-02-0754 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell: Introduction; Practice & Chanting ClassMark Whitwell author Yoga of Heart Music The Pure Love Project (iTunes) click link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...
Mark Whitwell speaks on the democratization of Yoga. Yoga is your direct intimacy with Nurturing Source AnyOne can do a real Yoga. It is easily adapted to individual need, body type, age, health AND cultural background.
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2021-02-0307 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell and Frederic "Champagne" Ballario | Yogis Are Not Built on Assembly LinesThese interviews are useful because they describe how many different kinds of people receive Yoga and make use of Yoga, and how Yoga is functioning in their personal and unique lives.
“Yogis are not made on assembly lines.”
In this episode, Mark Whitwell speaks with Frederic Ballario, his long-time friend, on his process of discovering the breath and the Yoga of wine and Tea. Frederic describes moving from Champagne, France to California, USA, many years ago and searching for the truth in wine.
Frederic is a master of Tea and Wine, and he expl...
2021-01-271h 09
The Heart of YogaYogis Are Not Built on Assembly Lines - Frederic "Champagne" Ballario and Mark WhitwellThese interviews are useful because they describe how many different kinds of people receive Yoga and make use of Yoga, and how Yoga is functioning in their personal and unique lives. “Yogis are not made on assembly lines.” In this episode, Mark speaks with Frederic Ballario, his long-time friend, on his process of discovering the breath and the Yoga of wine and Tea. Frederic describes moving from Champagne, France to California, USA, many years ago and searching for the truth in wine. Frederic is a master of Tea and Wine, and he explains how...
2021-01-261h 09Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell and Susan Swan | Living One Breath at a TimeIn this episode, Susan Swan and Mark Whitwell talk about Susan’s experience as a Yoga teacher, including suffering a stroke and continuing to teach while rehabilitating.
Susan speaks about recovering language through breath, swearing, and the sound of OM, coming face to face with the reality that we live one breath at a time, and teaching yoga in the hospital to help other patients recover.
Together, long-time friends Mark Whitwell and Susan discuss the inevitable decline of the body, finding contentment despite it all, the pain of facing judgment and abandonment, and some possible po...
2021-01-201h 04
The Heart of YogaLiving One Breath at a Time with Susan Swan and Mark WhitwellIn this episode, Susan Swan and Mark Whitwell talk about Susan’s experience as a Yoga teacher, including suffering a stroke and continuing to teach while rehabilitating. Susan speaks about recovering language through breath, swearing and the sound of OM, coming face to face with the reality that we live one breath at a time, and teaching yoga in hospital to help other patients recover. Together, long-time friends Mark and Susan discuss the inevitable decline of the body, finding contentment despite it all, the pain of facing judgement and abandonment, and some possible positive outcomes fr...
2021-01-151h 04Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell and Rosalind Atkinson | God and Sex: Now We Get Both Part 2In this Part 2 (you don't need to listen to part 1 first!) of God and Sex discussion, Mark Whitwell and Rosalind talk about:
Why we need both strength and receptivity
How we develop receptivity via our asana
Why we must address the denial of the feminine and put a spotlight on sex as a topic rather than avoid it
How a Yoga practice is the context in which we become receptive in relationship with another
How sex and intimate relationships are a direct participation of Mother Nature's grand plan
But do you have to be in an intimate relationship...
2021-01-1157 min
The Heart of YogaGod and Sex: Now We Get Both Part 2 with Mark Whitwell and Rosalind AtkinsonIn this Part 2 (you don't need to listen to part 1 first!) of God and Sex discussion, Mark and Rosalind talk about: Why we need both strength and receptivity How we develop receptivity via our asana Why we must address the denial of the feminine and put a spotlight on sex as a topic rather than avoid it How a Yoga practice is the context in which we become receptive in relationship with another How sex and intimate relationships are a direct participation of Mother Nature's grand plan But do you have to be in an intimate relationship to...
2021-01-0857 minMark WhitwellEnding Patterns of Limit: A Conversation with Domagoj OrlićFrom dark times in Europe through to personal victory.
Croatian yoga teacher Domagoj Orlić joins Mark Whitwell and Rosalind to speak about his twenty-year friendship with Mark Whitwell, his evolution from a gymnast to a yogi, the influence of J Krishnamurti, and the confluence of Sri Vidya and yoga in his life.
What a precious conversation with a dear friend and holder of yoga.
“Powerful peace and peaceful power of a life lived straight from the Heart, for the Heart.” - Domagoj Orlić
Domagoj Orlić first met Mark Whitwell in about 2000, followi...
2021-01-081h 21Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell on Transcending patriarchal Tantra, T. Krishnamacharya and authentic YogaMark Whitwell has taught yoga for over three decades throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, Fiji, and Aotearoa-New Zealand. Mark Whitwell’s simple mission is to give people the principles of practice that came through Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and his teacher TKV Desikachar, to make their Yoga authentic, powerful, and effective.
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2021-01-0723 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell on The Stuart Watkins PodcastMark Whitwell is a master Yoga teacher and has taught yoga for over three decades internationally and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga. Mark Whitwell is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar, with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark’s teachings clarify the profound passion and relevance of ancient wisdom to contemporary life. Mark Whitwell teaches Ha-Tha Yoga, which against common understanding means all physical forms of Yoga practice, not a...
2021-01-0606 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | The Heart of Yoga Podcast : New episode... “I Want Siddhis”Your principle siddhi is that you were born. You are life itself. That is the power, beauty, harmony already given. Looking for spiritual change of state is a denial of your natural state.
Where are my siddhis?! In this episode Rosalind grills Mark Whitwell on the promises made by the Yoga tradition, Yogananda’s classic ‘Autobiography of a Yogi,’ the lust for superpowers and supernatural experience and how it affects everyone, and what Mark’s favourite superpower is.
• What are siddhis anyway?
• What is the "psychic greed" that we may be numbed into by culture?...
2021-01-0400 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Water flows like existence flows as the substance of your life.Water flows like existence flows as the substance of your life. That’s all there is really. That’s what is. It is nurturing, regeneration, beauty, harmony, not division, not two, only One.
This is the basis of al existence. All are in the All. This has been given to you.
Existence is sacred, flowing water nurturing all, the context of all.
Watch these waters for a while flowing from Kailas soon merged with all waters everywhere. Sip these waters and sprinkle your sacred body with holy water, which is all water.
From...
2020-12-3101 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | God & Sex | The Yoga Life Podcast | Episode 80 | Kevin BoyleMark Whitwell is a master Yoga teacher and has taught yoga for over three decades internationally. He was the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar’s book "The Heart of Yoga." and is the author of "God and Sex: Now We Get Both", a book that clarifies the old cultural division of the sacred and the profane and how it has affected all of our lives. Mark Whitwell shares the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar, with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark’s teachings clarify the profound passion and...
2020-12-301h 09Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | A return to love a conversation with Karen WilliamsProducer, creator, model, Yoga and Qi Gong teacher, and advocate for empowered aging and beauty at all ages, Karen Williams joins Mark Whitwell from New York City to talk yoga, healing, transforming attitudes to aging, embracing difference and emotionally surviving the US elections.
Karen Williams is equally at home in front of or behind the camera. She is on a mission to revitalise global attitudes toward aging and embodiment, sharing the obvious truth that each one of us is already the beauty of life.
A resident of New York City, Karen is leading the way...
2020-12-281h 18Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | The Stuart Watkins Podcast- Ep. 08Tune into Mark Whitwell's work at: https://www.heartofyoga.com
About Mark Whitwell
Mark Whitwell has taught yoga for over three decades across the globe and is the founder of the Heart of Yoga foundation and the Heart of Yoga Peace Project. Mark Whitwell is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) and his son TKV Desikachar (1938-2016), with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years.
Mark Whitwell is the author of four books: ‘Yoga of Heart,’ ‘The Pr...
2020-12-261h 20Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | From India to Germany in the Guru Parampara of Krishnamacharya – with R. SriramMark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga
Sriram is my Gurubhai – brothers of the same teacher. He is particularly interesting to me in that he is indigenous to South India, born into the society and language of Krishnamacharya and Desikachar. Whereas I migrated into that culture and knew nothing of it in my early life.
As a modern man in the West, Sriram is an extremely informed Yoga teacher who is able to communicate the nuance of the culture of our teachers in modern and useful ways.
Sriram speaks of growing up in South India as...
2020-12-242h 04Mark WhitwellI WANT SIDDHIS - Mark and Rosalind talk Yogic Superpowers | Mark WhitwellIn this episode, Rosalind grills Mark on the promises made by the Yoga tradition, Yogananda’s classic ‘Autobiography of a Yogi,’ the lust for superpowers and supernatural experience and how it affects everyone, and what Mark’s favourite superpower is.
What are siddhis anyway?
What is the "psychic greed" that we may be numbed into by culture?
Understanding spiritual promises as the axiom of modern society
Mark talks about Gurus and miracle-makers he met in India and his response
"Autobiography of a Yogi": truth or fiction?
The transformational power of despair. How the yoga teacher extracts life-denying hopes and fant...
2020-12-231h 41
The Heart of YogaI WANT SIDDHIS - Mark and Rosalind talk Yogic SuperpowersIn this episode Rosalind grills Mark on the promises made by the Yoga tradition, Yogananda’s classic ‘Autobiography of a Yogi,’ the lust for superpowers and supernatural experience and how it affects everyone, and what Mark’s favourite superpower is. What are siddhis anyway? What is the "psychic greed" that we may be numbed into by culture? Understanding spiritual promises as the axiom of modern society Mark talks about Gurus and miracle-makers he met in India and his response "Autobiography of a Yogi": truth or fiction? The transformational power of despair. How the yoga teacher extracts life-denying hopes and fant...
2020-12-221h 41Mark WhitwellBelonging to Yourself with Litiana Lagibalavu and Mark WhitwellLitiana returns to the podcast for part two of this conversation on how yoga helped her throw out colonial and religious legacies from her body and embrace her own indigeneity, and truly feel at home in her body.
Mark and her discuss her experiences, her vision for teaching dissociated world leaders, and their shared relationship with the Indian High commissioner and her poetry honouring Fiji.
“You can't change anybody until you love them first.”
Her conflict between feeling at home, but never fully belonging to her own self
Yoga as a process of belonging to y...
2020-12-2246 minMark WhitwellBecoming Sane in the Yoga Circus - Q&A | Mark WhitwellIn this episode, Rosalind takes the position of the everywoman yoga teacher, interviewing Mark Whitwell on a lot of the questions and concerns people have as yoga teachers in our modern yoga scene.
Rosalind and Mark Whitwell discuss:
The initial habit to put teachers on a pedestal and how we undermine it.
What is “the Mick Jagger effect”?
Dealing with the embarrassment of being associated with the ‘yoga industrial complex’ and fear of not being able to give people what they have been led to believe yoga is.
Do people really want their breath? Do they want int...
2020-12-211h 02Mark WhitwellClaiming Your Self in a World of Suffering with Mark and Andrew RabaMark Whitwell has taught yoga for over three decades across the globe and is the founder of the Heart of Yoga foundation and the Heart of Yoga Peace Project. Mark Whitwell is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) and his son TKV Desikachar (1938-2016), with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark Whitwell is the author of four books: ‘Yoga of Heart,’ ‘The Promise,’ ‘The Hridayasutra,’ and, ‘God and Sex: now we get both.’ He also edited and contributed to his TKV Desikachar’s classic yoga tex...
2020-12-1831 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga | God and Sex now you get bothMark Whitwell has spent a lifetime dedicated to sharing the wisdom tradition of Yoga that he discovered in India as a young man in the 1970s. He was shocked to discover that the breath-based "whole-body prayer" Yoga as spiritual practice learned with his teachers T.K.V. Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya was not represented in the US and European "yoga scene." Since then, Mark has dedicated his life to sharing the transformative teachings of Yoga as embodied practice with modern people around the world. Mark was deeply influenced by his friendship with the sage UG Krishnamurti, who helped him...
2020-12-171h 02Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Your Body Loves Its BreathMark 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...
2020-12-161h 02Mark WhitwellNeil Boyd Yogi Farmer and Friend | Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989). He is the author of four books including ‘Yoga of Heart’ and ‘The Promise’ and was the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar’s classic yoga text ‘The Heart of Yoga.’ Mark Whitwell continues to facilitate teacher training and workshops in the heart of yoga all over the globe.
2020-12-151h 13Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | What is Heart of Yoga?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...
2020-12-141h 02Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Whole Body ReceptivityMark 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...
2020-12-1200 minMark WhitwellMark Whitwell | Heart of YogaMark 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...
2020-12-1109 min
The Heart of YogaNeil Boyd – Yogi, Farmer and Friend“Dear friends, I was born in the spring of ‘54 to a farmer father and school teacher mother. Both of them children of homesteader parents. After grade 12 , in 72/‘73, I backpacked and worked through Europe and Northern Africa for nearly nine months. Returning home I began farming and attending an agricultural college receiving a diploma in Ag Production. I bought my first land when I was 18, and have been making a living raising crops and cattle ever since. I married well in ‘81 and together we have raised three children. I had the opportun...
2020-12-071h 13
The Heart of YogaBelonging to Yourself with Litiana Lagibalavu and Mark WhitwellLitiana returns to the podcast for part two of this conversation on how yoga helped her throw out colonial and religious legacies from her body and embrace her own indigeneity, and truly feel at home in her body. Mark and her discuss her experiences, her vision for teaching dissociated world leaders, and their shared relationship with the Indian High commissioner and her poetry honouring Fiji. “You can't change anybody until you love them first.” Her conflict between feeling at home, but never fully belonging to her own self Yoga as a process of belonging to y...
2020-11-1146 min
The Heart of YogaA Return to Love: A Conversation with Karen WilliamsProducer, creator, model, Yoga and Qi Gong teacher, and advocate for empowered aging and beauty at all ages, Karen Williams joins Mark from New York City to talk yoga, healing, transforming attitudes to aging, embracing difference and emotionally surviving the US elections. Karen Williams is equally at home in front of or behind the camera. She is on a mission to revitalise global attitudes toward aging and embodiment, sharing the obvious truth that each one of us is already the beauty of life. A resident of New York City, Karen is leading the way to...
2020-11-061h 18
The Heart of YogaEnding Patterns of Limit: A Conversation with Domagoj OrlićFrom dark times in Europe through to personal victory. Croatian yoga teacher Domagoj Orlić joins Mark and Rosalind to speak about his twenty-year friendship with Mark, his evolution from a gymnast to a yogi, the influence of J Krishnamurti, and the confluence of Sri Vidya and yoga in his life. What a precious conversation with a dear friend and holder of yoga. “Powerful peace and peaceful power of a life lived straight from the Heart, for the Heart.” - Domagoj Orlić Domagoj Orlić first met Mark Whitwell in about 2000, following an interes...
2020-10-291h 21
The Heart of YogaStudies with Krishnamacharya: A Conversation with Richard SchechnerThis week we are so very glad to welcome Richard Schechner, who is a director, pioneer and founder in the field of performance studies, author of innumerable books, Professor Emeritus at New York University, editor of The Drama Review, and… a dedicated practitioner of the yoga he learned from his teacher, T. Krishnamacharya, in Chennai (then Madras) in 1971-72. What a blessing to talk life and India with this great thinker, who also happens to be a holder of the torch of yoga. In this episode, Mark, Rosalind and Richard discuss: How Richard came to...
2020-10-221h 06
The Heart of YogaBecoming Sane in the Yoga Circus - Q&AIn this episode, Rosalind takes the position of the everywoman yoga teacher, interviewing Mark on a lot of the questions and concerns people have as yoga teachers in our modern yoga scene. Rosalind and Mark discuss: The initial habit to put teachers on a pedestal and how we undermine it. What is “the Mick Jagger effect”? Dealing with embarrassment of being associated with the ‘yoga industrial complex’ and fear of not being able to give people what they have been led to believe yoga is. Do people really want their breath? Do they want intimacy? Or just sti...
2020-10-161h 02
The Heart of YogaClaiming Your Self in a World of Suffering with Mark and Andrew RabaIn this episode of The Heart of Yoga podcast, Mark and Andrew discuss: The relationship between Yoga and autonomy: empowerment, ideologies, and power structures Becoming your true Self and the role of culture in that process The acknowledgement of the teacher intervention in Yoga The teacher in Yoga: not a social, nor personal identity, but rather the force of Mother Nature's nurturing and local community The indoctrinated need for authority and how we can get free of it Yoga as a tool for lifting preconditioned patterns How Yoga empowers social activism The role of patience in yoga student-teacher...
2020-10-0831 min
Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell on Removing SufferingMark Whitwell has taught yoga for over three decades across the globe, and is the founder of the Heart of Yoga foundation, and the Heart of Yoga Peace Project. Mark Whitwell is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) and his son TKV Desikachar (1938-2016), with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark Whitwell is the author of four books: ‘Yoga of Heart,’ ‘The Promise,’ ‘The Hridayasutra,’ and, ‘God and Sex: now we get both.’ He also edited and contributed to his TKV Desikachar’s classic yoga tex...
2020-10-0604 min
Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell Talk: Yoga of IntimacyMark 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...
2020-10-0608 min
Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell | LifestoryMark Whitwell has spent a lifetime dedicated to sharing the wisdom tradition of Yoga that he discovered in India as a young man in the 1970s. He was shocked to discover that the breath-based "whole-body prayer" Yoga as spiritual practice learnt with his teachers T.K.V. Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya was not represented in the US and European "yoga scene." Since then, Mark Whitwell has dedicated his life to sharing the transformative teachings of Yoga as embodied practice with modern people around the world. Mark was deeply influenced by his friendship with the sage UG Krishnamurti, who helped...
2020-10-0609 min
The Heart of YogaGod and Sex: Now We Get BothGod and Sex: Perhaps the two most powerful and loaded words in the English language. This book is a serious, yet not humourless, stake in the ground for bringing the two words together in their intrinsic harmony as the creative force of life. Why a few publishers were frightened by the title “God and Sex” How sex has been vulgarized by religious culture and the burden of pornography How, by separating the concepts of God and Sex, humanity has made both of them useless, and created the whole Sex taboo in the first place Post-religious shock synd...
2020-09-301h 02
The Heart of YogaFrom Rebellion to Yoga with Litiana LagibalavuIn today’s episode, Mark interviews Litiana Lagibalavu, a yoga teacher, entrepreneur, lawyer in training, Indigenous Fijian, and a fierce activist philosopher building essential bridges between the ancient traditions of yoga and modern people of all kinds. She shares her story, her observations on teaching yoga in Fiji, and her journey into Yoga: Why she got interested in yoga in the first place and how it helped her find herself again The limitations of her own individual yoga training at the time and why she came to the Heart of yoga teacher (un)training on Taveuni If...
2020-09-1937 min
The Heart of YogaYour Body Loves Its BreathBreath is our direct participation in the power of the cosmos that you are. It is the central feature and even the purpose of asana, and yet is all but lost in much modern yoga. Breath is given lip service rather than careful engagement. Yet public attention is now turning to the power and healing potential of that overlooked miracle, our own breath. “If you can breathe, you can do Yoga!” Breath is the link between body and mind. Our body loves its breath and the inhale loves the exhale and vice versa. In t...
2020-08-291h 02
The Heart of YogaRemembering Desikachar and the Krishnamurtis in India, Switzerland and New ZealandT.K.V. Desikachar left us a vast wealth of practical knowledge about life and yoga by passing the precious jewels of wisdom from his father, Krishnamacharya. We continue to receive the gifts of Desikachar’s dedication to his father Krishnamacharya’s teachings and their friendships with Jiddu and UG Krishnamurti. Mark Whitwell first met Desikachar and his father in 1973, following extensive travels in India. He had met many gurus and yogis, but was struck by the fact that Desikachar and his family had no pomp and ceremony, no business agenda, and no need for name...
2020-08-291h 05
The Heart of YogaWhat is the heart of yoga?Mark Whitwell has been teaching yoga around the world ever since he first met his yoga teachers, T.K.V. Desikachar and his father T. Krishnamacharya, in Chennai in 1973. He realised straight away that our body loves its breath, the inhale loves the exhale and vice versa, and that yoga is an immensely practical and useful tool for everyone to respond to inspiration and grace. The Heart of Yoga is the result of these precious meetings. In this opening podcast episode, Rosalind Atkinson interviews Mark about the origins and purpose of the heart...
2020-08-291h 02
Bridging#14 Mark Whitwell: Embracing Life through YogaMark Whitwell is originally from New Zealand and is based nowadays in California. He is a yoga teacher, trains people to become yoga teachers in Bali and Fiji. He is also the author of the book ‘God and Sex, now we get both’. Mark tells us more about how you can get intimate with life as it already is through yoga. Host Özlem Özkan✧ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozkanozlem/✧Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemozkan/ Özlem is an Amsterdam-based multilingual and multicultural teacher, presenter, and author. Her li...
2020-08-191h 07
Kevin Boyle PodcastMark Whitwell - God and Sex: Now We Get Both"The only reason we choose to do yoga is for the pleasure — the literal pleasure — of our systems relaxing and filling with energy. It is not some struggle to enjoy a future result." — Mark Whitwell Mark is a master Yoga teacher and has taught yoga for over three decades internationally. He was the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar’s book "The Heart of Yoga." and is the author of "God and Sex: Now We Get Both", a book that clarifies the old cultural division of the sacred and the profane and how it has affected all of our li...
2019-12-181h 17
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE - Wanda Badwal#22 Yoga is the embrace of reality itself - Interview with Mark Whitwell
Das heutige Interview mit dem international bekannten Yogalehrer Mark Whitwell wird in englischer Sprache sein.
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Wanda is very honoured and excited to introduce you to this weeks guest: Mark Whitwell.
He is one of the most renowned yoga teachers around the world, and has studied with the great teacher Sri T. Krishnamacharya, and his son Desikachar. Mark has truly studied yoga in his origin and his teachings are a great inspiration to Wanda and thousands of yogis around the globe. He was born in New Zealand, began his yoga journey in the 70's and spent many years...
2019-11-111h 07
J. Brown Yoga TalksMark Whitwell - "Krishnamacharya and The Great Tradition"You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium. Mark Whitwell sits down with J to discuss T. Krishnamacharya and the power of the cosmos. They have a long history together and in this rare meeting they discuss the paradox between abuse and blessings in guru lineages, what Mark means when he says "The Great Tradition," the Krishnamurti's and why striving for a future possibility is a dysfunction, and bringing forth a new renaissance o...
2019-08-2650 min
City View- Quincy, MACity View with Mayor Tom Koch-Proposed Fox Rock Project on Hospital Hill & Update on the Long Island BridgeCity View with Mayor Tom Koch- Episode #23On Today's City View, Mayor Koch discusses these topics...1. The opening of the Staybridge/Holiday Inn Express in North Quincy.2. The newly proposed Fox Rock project on Hospital Hill (Whitwell St).3. Update on the Long Island Bridge litigation. 4. Overall development in Quincy5. August 28th announcement at City Hall Chambers regarding Quincy 400 and the New Quincy Historic Heritage Report
2019-08-1526 min
The Yoga Heart Mind Podcast#52 Mark Whitwell - God & Sex: Now We Get BothMark Whitwell is a master Yoga teacher and has taught yoga for over three decades internationally and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga. Mark is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar, with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark’s teachings clarify the profound passion and relevance of ancient wisdom to contemporary life.Mark teaches Ha-Tha Yoga, which against common understanding means all physical forms of Yoga practice, not a sp...
2019-07-281h 43
WAKE UP! with JoniMark Whitwell: Intimacy with Self, Others and the Cosmos through Yoga, There is a Yoga for Everyone, Ecology begins with your Body, Balance of Heart is Balance of Life"The fact is...Life is the perfect collaboration of male female in perfect harmony. Continuity of the collaboration which is a great power, an unspeakable beauty, a deep profound pleasure and the union of opposites ...is the nurturing force of reality itself." Mark is a yoga master who has traveled the world for decades, sharing about the body, mind, spirit and spirituality as enhanced by the practice of yoga. He also addresses intimacy, sexuality and the extraordinary gift of simply being ordinary. Hosted by: Certified Life Coach, Joni Caldwell Lerner, M.Bsc. ...
2019-01-231h 05
SOUL CRUSHSoul Crush Ep. 15 Mark Whitwell – Unspeakable Beauty
On today's show of Soul Crush I get into all things God, sex, death and the true understanding of yoga of the heart as shared by Mark Whitwell. Mark is a refreshing voice of reason in a mostly otherwise mad yoga world, and proclaims repeatedly that there is a yoga for everyone while speaking to the many misunderstanding of the popularized yoga of our time.
He dismantles the ideas that we are winners or losers in our patriarchal power structures, including the spiritual world. And how we are going to restore hope in humanity by reclaiming the Mother Nature wildness th...
2019-01-161h 05The Yoga Heart Mind PodcastEpisode #8 with Mark WhitwellMark Whitwell is one of my beloved teacher's and is a widely revered master teacher. Tune into Mark Whitwell's work at:https://www.heartofyoga.comAudio and video edited and mixed at The Mix House Sound Studio: WWW.MIX-HOUSE.COMTo support this podcast please visit:https://stuartwatkins.orgWatch the YouTube version of the podcast at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4dVT8a4eYMSupport the show
2018-11-031h 22
It's All HappeningEpisode 104 - Mark WhitwellTHE Super Yogi of Altered States of Intimate Consciousness - MARK WHITWELL - stops by the IAH podcast to go deep. Recorded live at Bhakti Fest '17, Mark and I revisit some of the past of our relationship, the true origins of yoga in the west and mans struggle with intimacy. Mark's wit, knowledge, intelligence and authentic wisdom is like no other. He is a yoga hiding out as a man. Mark Whitwell - is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar...
2017-10-071h 01
Voices of EsalenMark Whitwell on the Heart of YogaMark Whitwell is a brilliant yogi and an impassioned teacher, the student of Krishnamacharya, and an all-around funny, sweet, wonderful dude. I was privileged enough to sit with him for an afternoon, hear him play his sitar, and speak about many topics, chief among them his book, "The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy: How a Simple Breathing Practice Will Enrich Your Life Forever."
Our music today is Jason Shaw's "Running Waters", licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.
2016-06-2954 minJ. Brown Yoga TalksMark Whitwell - "Heart of Yoga"You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium. J finally has the guts to bring Mark Whitwell, his most influential teacher, on the podcast. They trace Mark's life in yoga, from his early years before teaching to his experience meeting Krishnamacharya, Desikachar, and the Krishnamurti's, and his travels around the world. The discussion is wide ranging as they reminisce about their shared past, changes in the yoga industry, and the directions they see t...
2016-04-2544 min