Quotes & Sayings About Asana

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do. — B.K.S. Iyengar

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

The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen. — Swami Vivekananda

Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice. — Giancarlo Esposito

When I ask people how much time they spend not doing their job - time spent on 'work-about-work' or phone calls or e-mails - people regularly tell me 60, or even 90 percent. So if Asana could take that down closer to zero, we could potentially double the effectiveness of humanity. — Justin Rosenstein

Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Asana and complementary services are bringing the evolved team brain to the entire world. In great companies like Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Foursquare, and LinkedIn, people already add information to and extract insight from these systems much the same way our hands and brain exchange signals. — Justin Rosenstein

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. — Donna Farhi

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. — Sharon Gannon

Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation ... when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial. — Namkhai Norbu

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma. — James Fox

Approach each asana with freshness every day. — B.K.S. Iyengar

When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled? — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal ... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. — K. Pattabhi Jois

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. — Bob Harper

We know a post-email world is coming. Asana is the first credible post-email application. — Justin Rosenstein

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time. — Justin Rosenstein

Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives. — James Fox

Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day. — Justin Rosenstein

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Asana means the full expression of mind-body integration, in which you become consciously aware of the flow of life energy in your body. — Deepak Chopra

We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The worst part of being a driver is that you have hours to yourself while waiting for your employer. You can spend this time chitchatting and scratching your groin. You can read murder and rape magazines. You can develop the chauffeur's habit it's a kind of yoga, really of putting a finger in your nose and letting your mind go blank for hours (they should call it the "bored driver's asana"). — Aravind Adiga

Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself. — B.K.S. Iyengar

When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life. — Tejomayananda

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness. — Sivananda

Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force. — B.K.S. Iyengar

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings. — Sharon Gannon

You must do the asana with your soul. How can you do an asana with your soul? We can only do it with the organ of the body that is closest to the soul - the heart. So a virtuous asana is done from the heart and not from the head. Then you are not just doing it, but you are in it. Many people try to think their way into an asana, but you must instead feel your way into it through love and devotion — B.K.S. Iyengar

Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a mystical language. — Sharon Gannon

Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance. — Bikram Choudhury

Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice. — Kathryn Budig

The study of asana is not about mastering posture.
It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar

You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body. — B.K.S. Iyengar

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

Asana has two facets, pose and repose. Pose is the artistic assumption of a position. 'Reposing in the pose' means finding the perfection of a pose and maintaining it, reflecting in it with penetration of the intelligence and with dedication. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The asana practice is extremely powerful and unique in design. In addition to improved flexibility, circulation, muscular strength and increased energy, and detoxification of the organs, each pose unblocks life force energy (prana) pathways in your body, reprograms your cellular DNA and connects us to our spiritual origin. — Dashama Konah Gordon

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. — Geeta Iyengar

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The yoga asana practice was developed to get the body in the best physical condition possible, so that the yoga practitioner would be able to sit for many hours comfortably in meditation. In order to reach the higher spiritual vibrations we must be as strong, flexible and open as possible. — Dashama Konah Gordon