Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

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

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.