Putin’s war in Ukraine has brought the insanity of authoritarianism inescapably to our attention. We cannot look away. Of…

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…

Mark Whitwell Shares about the Yoga practice and pure pleasure.. — Despite knowing what the benefits of home practice are, it can be difficult to get a daily yoga going. Somehow, when we go to get on the mat, a million other things demand our attention: housework, the kids, work, thoughts, the state of the world! In the beginning steps of…

By Mark Whitwell, Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — “It is not love that will bring us together, it is fear” — U.G. Krishnamurti. Everywhere humanity is heart breaking as the bombs come down on Ukraine; as men, women and children die in the streets of Bucha, Mariupol, Irpin, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Kherson. Reports are coming in daily…

By Mark Whitwell | Yoga Teacher at Heart of Yoga — The Buddhist dharma makes it very clear that there are fundamental difficulties to being alive. There is a fundamental difficulty in coming into individual form, struggling to grow and then passing out of this realm back into the eternity from which you came. It is a difficulty that we cannot…

A new report from Oxfam has revealed that the wealth of the world’s top ten billionaires has doubled to $1.5 trillion dollars over the course of the pandemic, whereas the rest of the world’s income has mostly declined. There is nothing wrong with wealth, but it is definitely not there…