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

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That's why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back.

Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

Yoga is a means and an end.

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.