The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.

Without education, confidence does not come.