Syllabus: 

  • Go deeper into Krishnamacharya’s breath principles across all asana.

  • Confidently teach varied pranayama such as nadi shodana, sitali, chandra bhedana, ujjayi, and kriya such as kapala bhati.

  • Refine Vinyasa Krama with appropriate sequencing and the logic of pose and counterpose.

  • Practice and teach nyasa, integrating sound into asana.

  • Chant and explore Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras through the understanding of this lineage.

  • Adapt Yoga to diverse bodies, challenges, and life situations.

  • Understand and teach Subtle Body Anatomy including the vayus, chakras, nadis, and their origins.

  • Choose electives such as adapting Yoga to the menstrual cycle, devotional music and simple instruments, Vedic chanting, Yoga for aging and dying, Yoga for teens and children, and Yoga for special needs.

  • Learn how Yoga relates to different religious traditions and how to adapt respectfully.

  • Explore yogic sexuality free from neo-tantra distortion.

  • Deepen the natural engagement of breath and bandha for natural alignment, including the anatomy of the diaphragm and vagus nerve.

  • Rest deeply and recognise the intrinsic beauty of our nature, as nature.

  • Teach Yoga from direct experience, not from what we know about it.

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Costs

Option 1

This Training Only

$1700 Earlybird – $1900 after the 1st September

$500 deposit upon registration confirms your place.

All amounts in US dollars

Full payment due by four weeks before the starting day (end of September 2025).

Scholarships available for Balinese students, please apply.

15% discount available for online studio supporting members (from at least 2024)

What this covers:

  • Full tuition, mostly with Mark, with assistant teachers Rosalind Atkinson and others

  • Sattvic daily lunch together

  • One-on-one discussion and personal practice help with Mark, mentors, or assistant teachers as required

  • Option for ongoing teacher mentoring online via access to the online weekly “teacher’s gatherings” for one year following on;

  • Printed copy of teaching manual;

  • Initiation of the heart of yoga certification process if you wish for it (this requires further teaching experience and ongoing relationship);

  • Can be used towards 300hr YA certification at a later date, if the option below is not taken.

What is not included:

  • Accommodation - there are plenty of great accommodation options in walking distance in the Penustanan area.

  • Breakfast and evening meal (we just have lunch together)

  • Airport transfers

  • Ongoing study for 300hr (see option below instead)

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Option2

300 hour certification with Yoga Alliance

$2800

Open to those who have done 200hr certification with the Heart of Yoga already

Everything above, plus:

6 month ongoing study online

ONLINE PROGRAMME

From 6th November (post-training) until 1st May (total 6 months)

This continuation of in-depth study towards 300hr certification requires/includes the following:

  • Attendance at the weekly “teacher’s gathering” with Mark in the Online Studio

  • Two monthly workshops live on zoom just for programme attendees – one with Mark, one technical one with Rosalind;

  • Weekly one-hour “key yoga concepts and texts” class that can be attended live or listened to as audio recording;

  • Recorded materials on breath and subtle anatomy; plus recorded electives to choose from: on Mantra, Yantra, Wisdom Goddesses, Sruti Box and Chanting/Singing, Basic Sanskrit, Basic Ayurveda, Death and Dying, Stick Figure Sequencing, Adapting Yoga for Astangis, Yoga for Exhausted People, and Yoga for Christians

  • Private chat group with support & space for questions

  • One private zoom lesson with Mark during the time

  • Private sessions with assistant teachers if needed based on need, interests and electives

  • Practicuum teaching via the ‘student teacher class’ and attendance at others’ class to offer feedback;

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Feel free to write to us with questions or registration enquiries:

FAQ’S

  • This gathering is for those who:

    • have already done a teacher ‘untraining,’ indepth workshop or retreat with Mark;

    • existing teachers or those moving into teaching in whatever form;

    • repeat attendees;

    • online studio members;

    • those needing 300hr certification

    Those who really need highly strict schedules and predictability may struggle. The mood is fluid and responsive to the needs of the group. Exact lunch time and evening finishing time will vary according to the flow of the day.

    This (un)training is in traditional tantric hathayoga made uniquely relevant and accessible in modern life. It is not about information gathering. Yoga is in your entire embodiment or it is nowhere. We explore subtle anatomy as the movement of energy in the body, not body part anatomy from a western medical perspective. You won’t learn names of muscles, bones or detailed labels on the body from the outside (if you have a personal interest in this, that’s totally fine). We will be considering how to share the precise practices that enable others to feel their own intrinsic intelligence, not trying to approximate that intelligence with mental knowledge.

    Discussion will include relationships, sexuality and anything else in your life you wish to bring yogic understanding to. You can speak as much or as little as you like and be assured of being listened to with respect. This is a conversation, a two-way flow of information, not a broadcast or a lecture. It is not any kind of neo-tantric workshop or space. You will get the most out of it the more reading, questioning and exploration you bring with you. You are a co-creator of this course, not a consumer of it. It does not exist outside of your presence.

  • In addition to options for YA 300hr above, this programme can be used towards certification by the Heart of Yoga Alliance. Our certification process to becomes a fully qualified teacher requires ongoing teaching practice and mentoring, an organic and personal process that takes a different amount of time for each person.

    This process is designed for those who require certification for certain workplaces, however, we teach that the main requirements for a teacher are: 

    1. That you have your own daily yoga practice

    2. That you have a good teacher

    3. That you truly care about others

    This training will give you the tools to meet these sincere human requirements, in addition to the ‘official’ certification.

    Prerequisites / Required Reading:

    Prior to the course beginning, students are required to read: 

    1. Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikachar

    2. Yoga of Heart by Mark Whitwell

    3. God and Sex: Now We Get Both by Mark Whitwell with Rosalind Atkinson and Andy Raba

    It’s also recommended that you read the full essay “The Yoga of Love and Sex” on this website.

    These texts are indispensable for helping you discover whether this is the right training for you, based on resonance with the teachings. Please only come if you have read these texts, and done a class with Mark or watched videos online and felt a personal resonance. Teaching happens within that relationship, not as an info-dump from an authority.