Asana Quote by Geeta Iyengar

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is…

— Geeta Iyengar

“Thus, Pawo Rinpoche says, both Nagarjuna's and Asanga's traditions agree that the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest right within…

— Karl Brunnholzl

When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the…

— Tara Stiles

“Om meditation makes the mind spacious. It gives the freedom for focus and divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the center of human creativity.”

— Amit Ray

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not…

— Asvaghosa

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

— Jack Kornfield

“draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This…

— Eckhart Tolle

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.

— Herbert Benson

“As we become more skillful we also discover that concentration has its own seasons. Sometimes we sit and settle easily. At other times the…

— Jack Kornfield

“So we would say in yoga that the subtle precedes the gross, or spirit precedes matter. But yoga says we must deal with the…

— B.K.S. Iyengar