In today’s brand-dominated world Yoga also comes in many different flavors, under different names and brands. 

Mark Whittwell is dedicated to helping each student find their own personal Yoga practice, “Your Yoga”, beyond the commercial styles. It is important to do Yoga that is right for You.

Mark knows from life-long experience that one size doesn’t fit all. Modern standardized Yoga classes of various different styles don't often take into account individual needs and differences. Many classes cater for young, healthy and athletic people, while only a fraction of the whole population fits this description. The longer we practice the more we notice that our bodies and tendencies change as our lives move on and change too. There is a Yoga for every One.

The way Mark teaches is holistic and intuitive, he sees his audience and begins an extensive dialogue which allows all students to learn from each other’s experience, question, debate and share together. The end result is always extremely liberating -a fast track to realizing the ultimate purpose of yoga practice; happiness and sense of connection, undoing the life-long conditioning that says we have to try to get somewhere as if we’re not somewhere already, become someone as if we were not someone already. Letting go of this is the liberation: Realizing that we already are loved, already accepted.

Mark reminds us of our condition, this virus as he calls it, and how easily we can be healed by just changing mindset.

The virus is the illusion of disconnection, of lack of love and fulfillment. We are forever trying harder in order to be worthy of happiness, fulfillment, love and connection. We search and reach for them is if they were some distant goals, absent from us. Mark helps us see how our constant effort to 'find it' or 'get there' becomes the problem, the obstacle itself. He shows us simply that Life cannot be absent from it's source, and that extreme intelligence of Life is in us, in the body, breath and sex. In all of it.

On the retreats and workshops Mark teaches Ha-Tha Yoga, which against common understanding means all physical forms of Yoga practice, not a specific “style”.  Ha-tha means the merging of the sun and moon, the male and female, prana and apana (two energies), and is a purificating and re-balancing practice where breath and body movement are one.   The practice includes Asana (postures), Pranayama (breathing exercises which move, activate and increase Prana, vital energy), Bandha (energy locks),  Meditation, Relaxation, chanting.

All hours can be accredited towards your Yoga Alliance teacher training certificate.