Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active.
Without education, confidence does not come.
What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.
The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis.
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
To master fear is the most important battle to win.
Do not live in the future, only the present is real.
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
It is never too late in life to practice yoga.
In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work – let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first!
There must be relaxation in full extension.
Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.