Heart of Yoga teacher, author of Yoga of Heart / God & Sex: Now We Get Both / The Promise. "If you can breathe, you can do Yoga"
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The heart of yoga podcast…
This episode is vital for our time.
New episode “Christians Need Yôga” Krishnamacharya.
An important conversation between Paul Hoffman and Mark Whitwell. “Yoga is the practical means by which the ideals of all cultures are actualized”
Mark Whitwell explains yoga as the daily practical means to actualize inspiration from Krishnamacharya's teaching, turning life experiences into lived embodiment rather than empty ideals.
Mark Whitwell critiques Western yoga's commercialization as a mass "lifestyle charade" and urges returning to Krishnamacharya's principle of personalized, individualized practice adapted to each person's body and needs 
The Lost Teaching of Yoga | Mark Whitwell | The True Principles of Yoga youtu.be/UfEgVDPuIi0?is=17QQ… via @YouTube
The Lost Teaching of Yoga | Mark Whitwell | The True Principles of Yoga youtu.be/UfEgVDPuIi0?si=Axdf… via @YouTube
The true meaning of being yourself youtube.com/shorts/UGISCx6iD… via @YouTube
Be in the World but not of the World | UG Krishnamurti youtube.com/shorts/WYjkvrZZC… via @YouTube
UG Krishnamurti's Unique Way of Expression youtube.com/shorts/qdcZthqfB… via @YouTube
Om Shanti | UG Krishnamurti | Ramanuja Acharya youtube.com/shorts/0_iIXQtT9… via @YouTube
Om Shanti | UG Krishnamurti | Ramanuja Acharya youtube.com/shorts/0_iIXQtT9… via @YouTube
Mark reframes trauma as transient bodily sensations to be welcomed rather than identified with, urging presence and breath as a path to healing and unity in a Balinese temple setting. 
Meditation is not the attempt to abide as awareness. That is a religious imposition on humanity that denies Reality.
The ocean and the wave is the same thing. A wave (you) trying to know the ocean denies both the ocean and the wave.
The ocean is the wave.
The Heart of Yoga reframes yoga as a friendship-based practice rooted in Krishnamacharya's lineage… the teacher-student relationship itself is the teaching rather than hierarchical authority or methods.
The best spiritual teacher is the one who suffered youtube.com/shorts/CeJjBc_wW… via @YouTube
Yoga has always been transmitted across cultural and language borders from ancient times to the present. Now we see a quickening of the transmission everywhere around the world. It is universal and does not belong to any society or cultural group.
Although yoga has been used by religious culture, particularly Hinduism and Vedanta, in its attempt to attain their mystical proposals, it is not Hinduism, nor is it a religious activity. It does not propose anything that cannot be directly experienced by the practitioner.
