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.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

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

Few things are more powerful than learning to trust that your path to a fulfilled life - and the glorious destiny that you are meant to share with the world - is part of your soul's blueprint.