You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.
The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.
I don't define myself by my body's ability to execute gorgeous asana anymore. I'm all about taking care of my temple and understanding that its requirements change with age and time.
The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
You are only as young as your spine is flexible.
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit.
You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.
When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
