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?

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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.

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Mark 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 relevance of ancient wisdom to contemporary life.

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Producer, 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 to a society of love and compassion. Her most recent major project was the ‘I AM’ series, a digital project to celebrate and empower women over 40, have a look HERE.

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Mark Whitwell Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yogaofheart/

Mark Whitwell Twitter: https://twitter.com/markwhitwell

Mark Whitwell Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markwhitwell

Mark Whitwell Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-whitwell

Mark Whitwell Medium: https://markwhitwell.medium.com/

Tune into Mark Whitwell's work at: https://www.heartofyoga.com

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 Promise,’ ‘The Hridayasutra,’ and, ‘God and Sex: now we get both.’ He also edited and contributed to his TKV Desikachar’s classic yoga text, ‘The Heart of Yoga.’ Mark Whitwell is a father of three and a grandfather. He now resides between New Zealand and Fiji and continues to write, teach, and speak.

Connect with Mark Whitwell on Social Media

Mark Whitwell Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yogaofheart/

Mark Whitwell Twitter: https://twitter.com/markwhitwell

Mark Whitwell Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markwhitwell

Mark Whitwell Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-whitwell

Mark Whitwell Medium: https://markwhitwell.medium.com/

Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga

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 a radical young explorer of life and his journey into Yoga — a riveting and a brilliant window into how radical Desikachar himself was, absolutely not a traditionally religious or conservative yoga school.

Mark 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.

Connect with Mark Whitwell on Social Media

Mark Whitwell Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yogaofheart/

Mark Whitwell Twitter: https://twitter.com/markwhitwell

Mark Whitwell Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markwhitwell

Mark Whitwell Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-whitwell

Mark Whitwell Medium: https://markwhitwell.medium.com/

In 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.

About Mark Whitwell 

Litiana 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.”

About Mark Whitwell

In 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:

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 Promise,’ ‘The Hridayasutra,’ and, ‘God and Sex: now we get both.’ He also edited and contributed to his TKV Desikachar’s classic yoga text, ‘The Heart of Yoga.’ Mark Whitwell is a father of three and a grandfather. He now resides between New Zealand and Fiji and continues to write, teach, and speak.