Quotes About Asana

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Approach each asana with freshness every day.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. We know a post-email world is coming. Asana is the first credible post-email application.

Justin Rosenstein

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The study of asana is not about mastering posture.
It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#26. 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

#27. When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?

B.K.S. Iyengar

#28. Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#29. The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

Sivananda

#30. Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#31. Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

Bob Harper

#32. 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

#33. The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#34. Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#35. Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#36. The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#37. The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

Donna Farhi

#38. 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

#39. It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#40. 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