Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga

New York City NY

08 April, 2021

2:43 AM

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Krishnamacharya on Relationship | The Opposites are Already in Union Mark Whitwell shares Krishnamacharya views on Relationship. When all the obsession with self-improvement, gym workouts, language learning and yoga come to an end, we recognize that we simply want to love and be loved in the mystery condition of Life. We all want to give and receive one another naturally and easefully. Indeed, our bodies are built for this very purpose. From the soft feeling frontal line of the body to the masterful base and spine, we are strong and yet utterly receptive. We are here to love. Yet, for most of us, relationship is where we are stuck. The trauma of having been born into a society that assumes separation has gone deep. Our living organism has been abused by a social mind that believes it to be separate from Nature and God for thousands of years. Because we mistrust our most essential connection to Life we struggle to love others, especially when it comes to sex. Mark Whitwell | Heart of Yoga Waves of lockdown and confinement may have brought the social dysfunction that was put in us as children up for inspection. This is all good. Our restriction is a goad to take positive action. In all the chaos and confusion that surrounds intimacy in our culture, the great yogi Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989) stands out as a beacon of hope. Krishnamacharya made available to the modern world the tools of the tantra: the practical means by which any person can be intimate with their own embodiment and then with another. Read the full article here: Mark Whitwell About: Mark Whitwell was born in 1949 in Auckland, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. In 1973, he traveled to India and began a life-long study of yoga with Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar (1938–2016). Mark Whitwell’s simple mission is to give people the principles of practice that came through Tirumalai Krishnamacharya to make their Yoga authentic, powerful, and effective. Mark Whitwell is the founder of the Heart of Yoga foundation and the Heart of Yoga Peace Project, an organization dedicated to developing yoga communities in conflict zones around the world. Mark Whitwell lives between New Zealand and Fiji.