WELCOME

Welcome to the Heart of Yoga first Online Teacher Training.
It has come from the real-life experiences of many people and from heartfelt dialogue between friends, and is part of the great worldwide process of returning us back to ourselves and the wonder of our own condition. We hope it will be helpful to you.

In a time when many people are questioning what yoga actually is, we offer an answer. It arises from consideration of a few basic facts: Firstly, that you are the power of this cosmos, arising as pure intelligence and utter beauty. Secondly, that you are already in perfect and intrinsic harmony with the rest of the cosmos, with air, with light, with the green realm, with water, and with male and female collaboration. This is a fact! It is not a spiritual idea or poetry. Yoga is nothing more and nothing less than participation in this fact.

When you radically stop looking, you might notice there is a movement of life, a unitary movement of body and mind and relatedness. Is your life happening without seeking, without looking, without requiring. It is? Yes! Yoga is not something that you do. Yoga does you.
— Mark Whitwell

This online education is a condensed communication of the heart of yoga, from its ancient origins through to modern times. It is not mere philosophical speculation or conjecture; it is actual yoga stemming from a love of life and an understanding of life formed under the immense influence of wisdom culture and wise people. You will learn the tools to practice for yourself, and this has the power to create sublime results in your life. That is a promise!

The material is structured in 3 parts:

Pay as you go (PAYG) model with unlimited access from a $99 investment. At the end of each part, you will be able to share your reflections on it all by responding to some tailor made questions. There are no right or wrong answers. Your encounter with what we share here is the next "great meeting" in the history of yoga, and your translation of it through your own life experience will sustain it as a living thing relevant to your time.

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Our mission is to have good yoga teachers in every community around the world.
It is the hope for humanity.

**Part I** - **You Have a Good Teacher**

This part tells the story of the lineage of friendships that have made the heart of yoga available in our modern context. The relationship between the legendary yogi and scholar, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), and the great living yogi U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007), has been pivotal to yoga’s evolution. Revolutionaries both, these two great teachers shared a mutual love and respect. Mark’s connection to both has inspired him to communicate what was brought forth: Yoga as participation in the perfection of life, as it already exists in each unique individual.

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**Part II** - **You Practice**

This part gives you the means to develop your own practice. Krishnamacharya taught that yoga must be adapted to the unique needs of each individual, and that there is a right yoga for everybody. Krishnamacharya’s principles are easily learned and applied in our yoga practice and lives, and are shown here in simple practices. When you are ready, please begin a short daily practice for yourself using the principles we share here! It will make it easier to receive what we’re offering, online and in live gatherings, and help you to digest it afterwards.

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**Part III** - **You Care About Others**

This final part explores how yoga is passed on in relationships of mutuality, respect and real feeling. As we come to realise that we are unconditionally supported by the force of creation, we can know it, be it, and pass it on. The final qualification to teach is that you care about others. When your practice “does you,” you realize yoga is you… And everyone else, too. All ethical action begins here.

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TESTIMONIALS

““Mark’s teaching has had a profound impact on me. And has caused such a shift and a real deep sense of relief.””

— Wendy McGregor

““I’ve learned a lot of valuable things from this resource; first and foremost, that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with me that I need to conquer or overcome to find a better life. That I can use yoga to open to, participate and immerse myself in my own experience as it is. Even if it is painful.””

— Jan Stefan Kaczmarek

““Thank you so much for taking the time and energy, forethought and caring to develop and record this program. It is invaluable! Even though I’ve completed the teacher training already, hearing them in this format was so instructive and I learned many new details that were very relevant.””

— Sarah McGrath

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THIS TRAINING IS OFFERED BY the Heart of Yoga Foundation IN PARTNERSHIP WITH URBAN FAMILY, A 501(c)(3) non-profit, dedicated to providing wellbeing tools for humanity.