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Not all spiritual teachers have the same role.

There are Avatars. They are divine incarnations, like Rama or Krishna.

There are Jivanmuktis. They are beings who became liberated during their lifetime.

And then there are Acharyas.

Teachers who have walked through the fire of human suffering…
and found freedom within it.

Interestingly, it’s often not the Avatars who are the most helpful for us.

It’s the Acharyas,
because they understand the human condition.
They know the struggle.
They know the way through.

In this episode, two Yogi friends explore the different roles teachers play on the spiritual path.

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The body is the cosmos. The body is in a unitary movement with the total cosmos. And that’s the end of it. I am you. You are me. Its finished.

Your Yoga is only participation in the given reality.

Trying to get something in spiritual or religious language, or trying to be something other than what you already are is the cause of human misery.

Arunachala India February 2027 taken in Ubud by @markwhitwell

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Pranayama 🐝♥️🐝🙏

Pranayama follows asana and Savana.

Pranayama is conscious breathing in a stationary posture… sitting, lying down, or standing.

The asana should proceed the pranayama, because moving the anatomy and breath synchronistically in asana makes conscious breathing in stationary posture, powerful and easy. In fact asana is known as “moving pranayama”.

Asana, pranayama and meditation is a seamless process of intimacy with life.

Mantra can accompany asana and pranayama at any time, silently, soft vocally, or loud vocally to replace the exhalation.

Teacher training in Germany October 11-16 in Bochum yogability.de.

Bali November 23-28

Arunachala India February 2027 taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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Now we must actually give Yoga to the people, What it actually is… participation only in the given reality.

There’s no intermediary between you and truth reality God. There is no becoming. There is no approach. There is only God. Belief in the mechanism of separation vanishes.

Yoga Teacher Training in Germany Oct 11-16 Yogability.de
Bali November 23-28
Arunachala India February 2027

Thank you Sebastian @ariezest for your thoughtful considerations. taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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Really do this in your daily life.

You earn Savasana through asana that preceeds it.

Sav means corpse. You literally die to knowledge. There is nothing to attain. Nothing need happen, and nothing should happen.

You are totally cared for, totally nurtured by What life is.

There is no intermediary between you and truth, reality, God.

You finish believing in the mechanics of dissociation

Leave the body alone, and give it a chance for its inherent intelligence to function.
The body is a profound intelligence that outshines all other forms that we “think” is intelligence, like thought, or the AI thought machines.

Go to the body. It is the utterly dependable base line…. You can finish with knowledge.

The body is the cosmos, a continuity with natural realm, in a unitary movement with the Total cosmos. taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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Krishnamacharya held the cultural knowledge, the practical means of how to respond and actualize the great Realty / God realizing cultures and inspirations of India’s cultural heritage.

Yoga is what you do as response to grace, or as a response to anything that inspires you. Yoga is the practical means to realize the ideals of culture, actually, naturally and steadily on a daily basis… without obsession.

To be inspired without the practical means to steadily realize it can make matters worse.

Germany teacher training coming up Oct 10 YogAbility.de
Bali Nov 23-28
Arunachala Feb2027

Thank you Sebastian @ariezest for your thoughtful considerations. taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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There is no approaching God / Reality.
There is no intermediary between you and God / Reality.
There is no becoming God / Reality.
There is no belonging to.
No one need give God to you.
No one can take God from you.

The entire social fabric and behavior, secular and sacred is based on the religious patterning of “approach”… presuming you can “get to” some ideal, any ideal.

God is not “other”. God is What you are. There is no approach.

Yoga is only participation in the gift and the glory of What is always already Here.

Germany teacher training coming up Oct 10 YogAbility.de
Bali Nov 23-28
Arunachala Feb2027 taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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Thank you @es.ce_soulchild for your beautiful contribution to our retreat today n Italy.

You are the power of the cosmos.

There is no intermediary between you and Reality.

There is no approach to God.

There is no becoming.

There is only Glory. taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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Italy gift from Sophie @starfaceyoga she ain’t messing around. taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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There is no intermediary between you and Truth / Reality / God.

We have the best friends / students in Italy gathered in recognition and participation in this fact. Thank you Rio, ancient associate and fellow wanderer for your heart of Yoga. I’m learning so much watching Rio and all the human animals in their natural state… utter equanimity, pure intelligence and integration of the whole body in the unitary movement of the total cosmos. 💥❤️🐕🙏 taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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“I honor the musicians because they have mastered the Sruti, the sound of God” Krishnamacharya

There is no intermediary between you and Truth / Reality / God.

We have the best friends / students in Italy gathered in recognition and participation in this fact. Thank you Carlos, ancient friend for your heart of Yoga… and the hip hop. Tunes are coming up. taken in Heart of Yoga by @markwhitwell

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