#yoga

"When you grasp the yogic principles and philosophies, you can apply them to any activity you are doing. Then every thing you do is spiritually enhancing your life. And this leads to the ultimate experience where everything you do is YOGA. It is all Union, unifying you with the Supreme Source."

"Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)"

"In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires."

"When you release a trauma on one level of your energetic being, you will experience relief on all other levels simultaneously."

"Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life."

"The asana practice is extremely powerful and unique in design. In addition to improved flexibility, circulation, muscular strength and increased energy, and detoxification of the organs, each pose unblocks life force energy (prana) pathways in your body, reprograms your cellular DNA and connects us to our spiritual origin."

"When we carry the thoughts of negativity and self-criticism, we inspire just what we don’t want: poor health and an unattractive physical body."

"Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul."

"Your body is a physical representation of the cumulative effect of all the experiences you’ve had throughout your life."

"The path to wholeness starts by loving yourself. It always starts there. If you love yourself, you will do whatever it takes to restore your health and happiness."

"In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions."

"As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood."

"Please don’t worry that yoga will contradict your religious belief systems, as Pranashama Yoga embraces all religions and beliefs systems. I believe we are all One and that Love is the highest truth. Love is my Religion."

"If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical."

"Whether you’re at the peak or the valley of any given wave, remember that this too shall pass."

"There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion."

"That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value."

"We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation."

"The yoga asana practice was developed to get the body in the best physical condition possible, so that the yoga practitioner would be able to sit for many hours comfortably in meditation. In order to reach the higher spiritual vibrations we must be as strong, flexible and open as possible."

"When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga."