If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

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.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.

The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.