The world work of Krishnamacharya
The world work of Tiramalai Krishnamacharya, the teacher of the teachers, of 101 useful years, was / IS to bring the wisdom tradition of Yoga, adapted to all individual needs and culture… is slowly, slowly, and sometimes suddenly, being accomplished. The goal is to see that there are real Yoga Teachers in every city, town and village on mother earth.
In the confusion of the West’s appropriation of Yoga, commodifying, marketing, branding into a tangle of “authority’s” styles the actual Yoga is missed.
Photos and video from local teachers in Africa and Fiji. @heartofyogaafrica @ilanasheartyoga
When students learn the principles that Krishnamacharya, the teacher of our teachers rescued from the 5 to 14th C wisdom traditions and brought forth into modern time…. they often will say “OMG I have something to teach now. I was confused but now I get what. Yoga actually is.”
Who can teach Yoga?
- You have a good teacher yourself.
- 2. You practice yourself.
- 3. You care about others.
These are the only teaching qualifications required.
Yoga is not information gathering”. Krishnamacharya
“Yoga is not commercial activity”. Krishnamacharya
The Yoga Teacher is the force of mother nature is Nurturing in local community. And the teacher is no more than a friend no less than a friend.
Students who do the online course, Immersion into the Heart of Yoga personal practice find that they very quickly have something to teach that’s quite specific, and they can teach early on. So don’t let anything hold you back. Let’s get the job done together. Intimacy with our own life, our own mother nature is an urgent requirement of this suffering world.
It is connection we need. Intimacy with life, with reality as it actually is. Different cultures and spiritual traditions express this truth in different terms. Some speak of Buddha nature, meaning that your True Self is embedded under layers of conditioned identity, waiting to be set free. Others refer to the presence of God in each of us. Or they say that the vessel of the Light originally shattered into billions of shards, and every human being is illuminated by one of these fragments. None of these images or conceptions explains fully what I mean.
Let me put it this way: the extreme intelligence and beauty of life are functioning in you as you already are. The intelligence of male- female polarity, which can create new life, down to even the way your skin functions, is an unfathomable intelligence that science cannot understand. You are Nurturing Source Reality. No attempt to know consciousness will achieve it. You already are that consciousness, so no looking is required — just participating in what is already given.
Mark Whitwell
