Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga

There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body is diseased. The yoga scriptures say “Manayeva manu ā ā kara a bandha mok ayo (this verse may be transliterated incorrectly),” the mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. If the mind is sick and sad, the whole body gets sick, and all is finished. So first you must give medicine to the mind. Mind medicine: that is yoga.

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.