Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — Q. How do you explain the reason why we get caught up in spiritual seeking? Mark Whitwell: Seeking is a response to the suffering caused by the “I am separate” conditioning of society. …

Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — Daily the reports are coming in of young people and adults struggling with mental distress. According to the latest State of the World’s Children report from UNICEF, 13 percent of those aged between 10 and 19 suffer from a diagnosed mental health disorder. Deep compassion for everybody out there who…

Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — Thank you Elvis Presley for being great life sign, a messenger through which the great power of the cosmos exploded into popular consciousness. You started it all. Without you there would have been no Beatles, no John Lennon or Janis Joplin, no Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, or Rolling Stones. I…

Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — Religion becomes true and useful as the ideas of separation and hierarchy dissolve. The brave young women of Iran burning the head scarfs are burning down orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is those who use religious/ spiritual/ Yoga ideals as power mechanisms to control others. These instruments of civilization are out of control…

Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — How to respond to the ancient Vedic spiritual transmission from Reality Realizers with an actual Yoga, with actual Life positive sexuality, and without any power structure that creates the delusion of superiority or inferiority in any way to any body or any thing. In the early 1970s, I spent several…

Restoring Intimacy Within Religious Life | Mark Whitwell — May the conflict in Iran soon resolve into Peace. May religious life every where soon resolve into loving collaboration between opposites, in same sex or opposite sex intimacy, in any gender identification, or none at all. For all life is formed by the union of opposites. The two are one…

Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — Mark Whitwell interviewed by Andy Raba Mark Whitwell: It has become clear to me in recent times just what the hell UG was communicating. Him sitting in a room year after year shouting that there was no such thing as thought, and people come in and then get frustrated because…

Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — In Tirumalai Krishnamacharya’s radical investigation of the human life he made the statement that there must be the intervention of a teacher. Indeed, the universal means of transmission of all spiritual cultures is the mutual affection between two actual people. This goes back to the ancient world where a friend…

“The only samadhi that is valued in Yoga is sahaj samadhi, the natural state, the union that has already happened.” Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga — A Yogi is one who is not using the mind or knowledge as an instrument of seeking because the Natural State–the beauty, harmony, intelligence and power of Reality Itself–is simply obvious as their own (and everybody’s) inherent, already-given condition. The Yogi is finished being the imagined (thought-created) separate subject who…