Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.

You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.

Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.

Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.