By Mark Whitwell Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — This article is part of a series in which Mark Whitwell tackles humanity’s dysfunction around intimate relationship and the root cause of sexual abuse in societal patterns of separateness, conflict, fear of commitment, and co-dependency. He explains how the real pleasure of intimacy that Yoga gives is the social solution…

By Mark Whitwell Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — This article is part of a…

By Mark Whitwell Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga —

By Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga — Doubt is the condition of the human mind in modern society. The doubt of being what we are, the doubt of our connection to Life, the doubt of our essential condition as the power of the cosmos. …

Putin’s war in Ukraine has brought the insanity of authoritarianism inescapably to our attention. We cannot look away. Of course, the actions of totalitarian government have been here for centuries. All the same, the present-day horror of one man’s barbarism is devastating to see. At the time of writing more…

The latest Netflix blockbuster ‘Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story’ explores the horrific sexual abuse committed by Jimmy Savile over his entire career in British broadcasting, from 1955 until 2005, most of which was against children and teenagers. The first episode explores how Savile managed to trick — “like a…

By Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga | Yoga Teacher — In our tradition, they say that when disorder comes to a limit, when suffering is too widespread, something will happen. In many Yoga schools the beginning of change is suffering. We find ourselves in a situation that we don’t like — TKV Desikachar. The number one cause of burnout is…

Spiritual practice is based upon the recognition that what there is is the great Power of the Cosmos — that which some cultures called God, Allah, Yahweh, the Divine, Source Reality, Truth. There is that only, God only, arising now and every one and every thing. …

I first met U.G. in 1973 in Bangalore. He had become close with my teachers Krishnamacharya and Desikachar, having sought out their help following what he called his ‘calamity’ — the explosion of energy that occurred in him for no apparent reason when he was fifty years old. The Kanchipuram…