If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

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

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

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

Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.