If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.