The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity.
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul.
Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active.
Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.
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.