Your body is the child of your soul.

Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.