The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

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.

You exist without the feeling of existence.

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.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?

A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.