A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.