In this episode, Rosalind grills Mark on the promises made by the Yoga tradition, Yogananda’s classic ‘Autobiography of a Yogi,’ the lust for superpowers and supernatural experience and how it affects everyone, and what Mark’s favourite superpower is.

• What are siddhis anyway?
• What is the "psychic greed" that we may be numbed into by culture?
• Understanding spiritual promises as the axiom of modern society
• Mark talks about Gurus and miracle-makers he met in India and his response
• "Autobiography of a Yogi": truth or fiction?
• The transformational power of despair. How the yoga teacher extracts life-denying hopes and fantasies like the pulling of teeth.
• How can it be true that "All is One" when there are so many contradictory things and beliefs in the world?

About Mark Whitwell

Mark Whitwell has taught yoga for over three decades across the globe and is the founder of the Heart of Yoga foundation and the Heart of Yoga Peace Project. Mark Whitwell is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) and his son TKV Desikachar (1938-2016), with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark Whitwell is the author of four books: ‘Yoga of Heart,’ ‘The Promise,’ ‘The Hridayasutra,’ and, ‘God and Sex: now we get both.’ He also edited and contributed to his TKV Desikachar’s classic yoga text, ‘The Heart of Yoga.’ Mark Whitwell is a father of three and a grandfather. He now resides between New Zealand and Fiji and continues to write, teach, and speak.