2. I salute all great teachers and yogis who have brought us knowledge of the science of yoga.
3. When you first close your eyes and step onto the inner path of yoga/meditation it is dark and unknown. As you practice you begin to see that the path is well lit by all the illustrious souls who have shed their light on yoga.
4. Yoga is the movement from gross to subtle.
5. When you do your practice it is a creative action.
6. A body at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. The outer force and the inner force are the same force.
7. Desire seeks its fullfilment.
8. Yoga science is like rocket science, first you need a good rocketship, that is your physical body. Next you need enough fuel to create thrust, that is the power of your breath, your prana. Next you need an intelligent operator to pilot the rocket, that is yourself. Last you need to press the button for ignition, that is doing your practice.
9. Yoga science is like computer science. First you need some hardware, a computer. that is your physical body. Next you need some software. That is your knowledge of yoga. Next you need to plug it ointo the wall socket for electricity. That is your prana. Last you need an intelligent operator. That is your innerself that brought you to your practice of yoga.
10, Practicing yoga is like working in your garden. We water, fertilize and bring light into our garden to have a great crop and a bountiful harvest.
11. The body is like a field. The yogi is a field-knower.
12. Action is greater than non-action.
13. The posture never ends.
14. The mind is like the weather, always changing. Above the weather it is always clear.
15. Breathe, identify with the prana that is in the earth, air, sun, sky , space and in all things and that moves through you.
16. Who is doing the posture?
17. The body is like jello, the asana is the jello mold.
18.When we practice yoga we use the tools of body and mind united in breath to move into spirit.
19.Let the body melt into the pose, give up resistance and let go.
20. Yoga is transformation.
21. Practice letting goness.
22. "God, Guru and self are One". Ramana Maharshi
23. "This is the aim of yoga: the elevation of the narrow, fear-ridden and desire tormented human consciousness to a state of indescribable beauty, glory and bliss". Gopi Krishna
24. Love is the strongest experience and obliterates fear, anger, doubt and pain. that love is mine and I power that in every breath.
25. The mind needs to be right, the heart knows.
26. Would you rather be right or happy?
27. Love is truth, honesty, acceptance, forgiveness and compassion for the self and others.
28. Your yoga practice is a date you are having with your best friend and lover, and the One who knows you best and most of all.
29. Dedicate and rededicate yourself to your practice. Know that you are giving to yourself from yourself and that no person or thing can give this to you.
30.When we practice postures we meditate on prana in a form, every asana is an energy signature.
31. A yogi is a cosmic surfer on the waves of karma.
32. The true teacher sits in the heart center, when your mind is quiet you can hear him/her softly whispering to you "yoga", your union.
33. Practice at the same time in the same place. You will establish a power spot.
34. As your practice deepens your body becomes light.
35. The body is like a musical instrument that goes out of tune. Yoga postures put you in tune so you can play beautiful music.
36. The physical body is a temple in which I worship.
37. Pranayama makes you shine. Practice daily.
38. Your body/mind is an energy dynamo, charge it with pranayama.
39. Your body/mind is a mini solar cell charged with the light of the sun, channeled through your breath. Practice pranayama.
40. When you prcatice pranayama you channel the immense energy from the infinite space "out there" into your inner space. The outer space and the inner space are the same space.
41. Draw your breath from the light of the sun, from 93 million miles through the space, through your nostrils, through your spine and central axis into your solar center and radiate out.
42. The asana is like an iceberg, 90% of it is below the surface and not seen with the naked eye.
43. As your practice deepens, your "third eye" opens and you develop insight.
44. Asana makes the body strong, light and energetic. Pranayama channels energy throughout the body. Meditation brings insight and awareness.
45. In the study of yoga, the subject and the object are the same, the Self.
46. Yoga is natural and based on the laws of nature. With strong consistant practice it becomes supernatural.
47. Thought is an obstacle to yoga.
48. Yoga is not what you think it is, or what you think it is going to be. Yoga is the direct experience as you are experiencing it. Knowing this you meet your true teacher.
49. The blade of grass on my lawn and the blade of grass on your lawn are connected to the same ground.
50. You and I and every being on the planet are connected to the same ground.
51. Thoughts arise from the mind, feelings arise from the heart.
52. The heart is the agent of the soul.
53. The soul is the agent of God.
54. Yoga/meditation is the doorway to the soul.
55. Yoga, or union with the self is a just breath away.
56. Yoga/meditation increases bandwith.
57. Yoga is passionate, practice with dispassion.
58. Bring your direct experience of yoga into your day to day, moment to moment experience.
59. Ecstatic, energetic, exuberant, exhilaration is ananda.
60. Samadhi is the direct experience of the clear self undistorted by the residue of thought or colored through any lens.
61. Asanas, pranayam, meditation are the means of yoga, Samadhi is the end result.
62. Samadhi is the original natural state that has been forgotten or ignored through conditioning.
63. Yoga practice brings us into the present moment by direct experience where conditioning can be seen and dropped.
64. Letting go creates openess, creates newness.
65. Yogis have been getting "on line" for millenia.
66. The Universe is the internet, a yogi is a Net surfer.
67. Discipline is freedom...Sadhana creates moksha.
68. Each asana is a different viewpoint of the everchanging phenomena.
69. Enertia requires no effort which is tamas.
70. Yoga practice (sadhana) is a creative act and is rajas.
71. The creative action of sadhana leads to satva.
72. There is no place where there is not prana.
73. The guru is omnipresent.
74. "Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Power is the strain, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite is All, Composer and Audience". Sri Aurobindo
75. Sooner or later everyone comes to yoga, that is all there is.
76. Practice with an attitude of gratitutude that produces aptitude.
77. The yoga instructor receives instruction from the Guru which is everpresent and transmits to the student whose teacher sits within.
78. A yoga instructor is like a sculptor who starts out with a piece of rock, hammering away with a sledgehammer until a beautiful form takes shape, then continuously refines the tools finer and finer until there is a beautiful piece of art.
79. Asana - make your body liquid by making your breath fluid.
80. Asana- dont try to ram a square peg into a round hole.
81. Asana- a state of controlled tension in the body where the conflict of opposing forces moving in opposite directions creates a space. Breathing into the space creates expansion and lightness.
82. In the beginning, your practice requires a strong effort, just as when a buiding is being built it may be neccessary to blast through rock in order to build a strong foundation.
83. Asana- where there is stiffness and resistance in the body concentrate and direct the breath like a pneumatic tool to break through resistance.
84. A yogis body becomes light because he/she doesn’t identify with the body but with the prana that animates it.
85. The mind is always producing mental rays. Yoga/meditation changes the rays into a beam that cuts through the sheaths.
86. The yoga instructor is an agent of the Guru.
87. Yoga practice requires strong intention with attention. To be In where you are At.
88. Mudra is to asana what synapse is to nerve.
89. The yoga instructor is like the assistant coach on a football team who calls out the plays, the students are the team, the Guru is the head coach.
90. Karma is like water molecules in the ocean warming up slightly that will produce weather changes on the other side of the globe.
91. Karma is like the force under the ocean that we can not see, that makes the waves rise and fall on the surface.
92. Karma is the force that propels us. In Samadhi there is no karma.