“However beautifully we carry out an asana, however flexible our body may be, if we do not achieve the integration of body, breath, and mind we cannot claim that what we are doing is yoga.”
“Yoga is the ultimate fusion of science and spirituality.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga means connection – connection with the Supreme Self”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Life on the Mat
“I roll it out and step inside a world of self-discovery, mine.
Here is where I challenge myself, to learn just how to be myself…
to grow and reach and stretch and sweat,
I push my boundaries, no regrets.
For this is where I seem to be, a stronger, better newer me.
And when my body’s fully spent, my spirit takes a forward step,
I contemplate the wisdom’s known,
relinquished now, in Child’s pose.”
Source: Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons
“When I learned about santosha, yoga's version of contentment, it seemed right up there with enlightenment in terms of what I could accomplish in this lifetime. Cultivate a sense of being all right with who I was and what I had? Impossible. To me, contentment was fleeting and based on whether I'd gotten what I wanted, usually from some outside source. But santosha proposed a contentment that could be intentionally cultivated, independent of the external sources of happiness and value we usually count on and measure ourselves by. Santosha is being okay with what we have and who we are, right now.”
Source: Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physical, 30 Days to Enhance your Practice and Revolutionize Your Life From the Inside Out
“Your relationship with your breath is your personal religion. This relationship ends only with your last exhale.”
Source: Breath WorkOUT for Life: For a Fitter, Stronger and Happier YOU
“It is recorded in the two Sahihs that the Prophet, God grant him blessing and peace, said: “Shun the seven destroyers.’’ They said, “What are they?’’ He said, “Ascribing partners to God, sorcery, killing a soul that God has forbidden except justly, consuming usury, consuming an orphan’s property, fleeing from the battlefield, and slandering chaste, innocent believing women.”
Source: Ranks of the Divine Seekers A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 1 (Islamic Translation)
“Building a healthy relationship with the most advanced technology app on the planet – Our own breath.”
Source: Breath WorkOUT for Life: For a Fitter, Stronger and Happier YOU
“Yoga was originated in India around 5500 BCE. Vedas were written during 1500 to 1200 BCE and the Patanjali's yoga sutra was written around 500 BCE.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Desire arises when we look to the external world to make our internal world feel better.”
Source: Life Happens To Us: A True Story