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• but what I discovered is a style of yoga that cultivates physical ease and mental calm. I have long abandoned my ambitions for greater range of motion, but the deeper qualities of yin yoga have kept me practicing for over twenty years.
• I do not believe that happiness lies in carrying Darwinian survival of the fittest to its extreme. I do not believe that constant accumulation is the proper goal of a human being. I do believe, however, that it is noble and proper to voluntarily trace a circumference around our desires and to deliberately increase the time we spend cultivating kind...
•         1.    A causal body of thought and belief.         2.    An astral body of emotion and desire.         3.    A physical body of material substance.
• These are the three main pillars of the theory of yoga:         1.    Our three bodies are knit together and influence each other through special centers in the spine and brain called Chakras.         2.    The energy that flows through these chakras is called Chi.         3.    This energy flows through our bodies in channels called Meridians.
• The manifestation of chi in the physical dimension is awareness of some part of the body or a pleasant sensation of energy flowing through the meridians. If this flow is blocked then the yogin experiences discomfort.