FREE FRIDAY LECTURE: The Principles of Yoga according to Krishnamacharya

While respecting the popular styles and each person's background, Mark will show how the ancient yoga technology brought forth by Krishnamacharya can serve the practice you already know and love. Include the principles of Krishnamacharya to make any style of practice entirely your own - efficient, powerful and safe. Yoga is your non-dual life, your direct embrace of reality nurturing source and all relationship.

Advancing Your Yoga

Yoga must be adapted to individual needs. "Adapt Yoga to the individual, not the individual to the yoga. There is a perfect yoga for every person. If you can breath you can do yoga."- Krishnamacharya.

Asana is hatha yoga and Hatha yoga is tantra, the non-dual practice. What does this statement mean? "Ha tha" equals "Strength receiving" which has profound implication to our Life and health. How do we make sure our asana is actually hatha yoga?

Breath, asana and bandha (in that order) integrate as a seamless process. Apply asana and bandha efficiently to produce a powerful practice that is right for you.
 Mark will discuss how to adapt yoga to individual needs and health issues, yours and your students. 

Asana, Pranayama, Meditation and Life

Advanced asana and pranayama class open to every one. (Mark will always adapt advanced practices to individual needs.) Asana supports pranayama, pranayama supports meditation, meditation supports Life and all relatedness. Mark will clarify the principles of pranayama and bandha in your practice.

Yoga from the heart...for the Heart

Getting it right for your self and others. Awaken yoga practice to the peace and power of your natural state. Weaving the tools of yoga into personal and powerful systems of body breath and sex. The beauty of non-obsessive, yet actual daily practice. We will define daily practice and discuss the purpose of yantra and mantra in asana and pranayama.

Mark Whitwell

Mark Whitwell has enjoyed a life long relationship with the teachings of Professor T. Krishnamacharya "the teacher of the teachers," notably BKS Iyengar, K Pattabhi Jois, Srivatsa Ramaswami, Indra Devi, A G Mohan and TKV Desikachar. Having studied since 1973 in the home of Krishnamacharya with his son Desikachar, Mark is committed to communicating the timeless yoga principals with compassion and clarity.

Yoga is every person’s direct intimacy with reality, which is an entirely abundant, regenerating and nurturing power. This is yoga from the heart for the heart. It is made clear in TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga. Developing a Personal Practice to which Mark contributed and edited. Mark's book, Yoga of Heart:  The Healing Power of Intimate Connection is published by Lantern Books. Soon to released his new book is The Promise: The Practical Secrets of Sex and Intimacy.

Mark lives in Los Angeles and Fiji. He travels throughout the world teaching the timeless principles of ancient Yoga wisdom. In 1996 Mark established The Heart of Yoga Association a non-profit foundation that provides yoga education around the world. Having studied with many known and unknown yoga masters, Mark is most interested in revealing actual yoga and how each person effectively practices