Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power. — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled? — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. — Bob Harper Copy Share Image
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect… — Geeta Iyengar Copy Share Image
We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15… — Jayne Middlemiss Copy Share Image
Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small… — Tejomayananda Copy Share Image
Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal… — James Fox Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect… — Geeta Iyengar Copy Share Image
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two… — Rajashree Choudhury Copy Share Image
In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy.… — Jayne Middlemiss Copy Share Image
“How, then, can we possibly analyze the anatomy of an asana? Because we believe asana is more of a process than a… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
