Heart Yoga by Mark Whitwell

An authentic yoga that opens hearts to love and wisdom.

"The highest place of yogic awareness is the heart, not the head." And in the heart we are all already enlightened, says Mark Whitwell, American-New Zealand yoga master. He studied yoga with eminent masters such as T.KV. Desikachar, who also introduced him to the yoga of yoga master T. Krishnamacharia.

In "Heart Yoga", Whitwell dares to be revolutionary: he formulates a new, his own yoga sutra of the heart: 44 concisely summarised wisdoms about life, love and enlightenment. Yoga, according to Whitwell, must be detached from the striving for something that can only be achieved in the future. Yoga, he says, is life itself, a dance of the masculine and feminine in mutual interpenetration and mutual respect. How this can affect one's own, daily yoga practice - this, too, can be learned in this stirring book.

Softcover, 272 pages.