Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Sex, Love, and SuperPowers podcast show. I am your host, Tatiana Berindei, and today my guest is Mark Whitwell, and we’re going to be talking about God and sex. So this is going to be a good conversation. I can feel it. I feel it in my bones. Let me tell you a little bit about Mark before we dive in.
Mark Whitwell is the founder of the Heart of Yoga Foundation, a nonprofit committed to yoga education around the world. Mark has taught yoga for many decades throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Oceania, adapting the principles of the great tradition to the needs of people from many cultures and countries. He’s interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual based on the teachings of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, the teacher of the teachers, and his son, T. K. V. Desikachar.
After first meeting these two great teachers in 1973, Mark realized the importance of their scholarship and committed his life to further the communication that there is the right yoga for every person, no matter who the person is. His teachings clarify the profound relevance of ancient wisdom to modern times and aim to deconstruct disempowering hierarchies and help people to stop looking, start living.
Mark was the editor of and contributor to T. K. V. Desikachar’s book, The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, and is the author of Yoga of the Heart; The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy; God and Sex: Now we get both; and The Hridaya Yoga Sutra. So welcome to the show, Mark.
Beautiful. Thank you for a very detailed introduction. I appreciate that.
You’re welcome.
Everything is there.
Everything is there, yeah. So we are going to be talking about God and sex today, and this is a very broad topic, but there’s also a very specific angle that we’re going to be approaching it from. But before we dive in, we are going to take a quick break, and before we do, will you just share with our listeners what your superpowers are?
I love that. I love that question and thank you for asking. So my superpower is that I am alive on Earth. That’s my superpower.
I love it.
Yeah, because the power of this cosmos brought me into existence through my beautiful mother and father and created one cell, and then a whole spine grew, and a whole head, and here I am, folks, power of the cosmos. I would just like to point out that everybody is that power, that beauty, the beauty, and the intrinsic harmony that is life, how the cosmos is functioning. We are all that. That’s the bottom line. So that’s my superpower, I’m alive.
 Yes. Okay, so I really want to get to this conversation, which means we’ve got to get to this break, and will you just tell everyone where they can go to find out more about you and your work before we break?
Oh, thank you. Yeah. Well, the website is heartofyoga.com, and there is our immersion online personal yoga course, and all kinds of things are there. The books are there, and so on and so forth.
Beautiful. Thank you so much. So we are talking with Mark Whitwell today about God and sex. Stay tuned.
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