Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth - those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive - from those that do not.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Yoga is about life, this means all of life, not just part of it.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.