Mysuru Yoga Utsava, 12-15 December, 2024

QUOTES from T.K.V. Desikachar:
  • “Our yoga practice must always be a little more clever than our habits.”
  • “The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.”
  • “If we take care of the exhale, the inhale takes care of itself.”
  • “Yoga therapy is 90 percent waste removal.”
  • “Yoga is relationship.”
  • “The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”
  • “Whenever you are in doubt, it is best to pause. Few things are so pressing that they cannot wait for a moment of breath.”
  • “The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.”
  • “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.”
QUOTES from Leslie, inspired by Desikachar:
  • “A tiny bit of positive change to something we do a lot can add up to a tremendous amount of positive change over time. That is why put a lot of focus on standing, walking and breathing.”
  • Asanas don’t have alignment, people have alignment.”
  • “You can’t abstract asana outside of the person doing it. There is no such thing as an asana without the person who’s making the shape.”
  • “Breathing is the shape change of the abdominal and thoracic cavities. 
  • “Your spine is the back of your cavities…your breath is the front of your spine.”
  • Posture in how we stabilize ourselves in space – breath is how we mobilize the space in ourselves.”
  • “If we resist the change that’s inevitable (isvara pranidhana), we miss the change that’s possible (tapas). The trick is in learning which is which (swadhyaya).”
  • “There is a correct way to do breathing techniques, but there is no single correct way to be be breathing.”
WATCH/LISTEN:
RECOMMENDED READING:
Should We Keep Mula Bandha All The Time?
Should We Keep Mula Bandha All The Time?
Have you heard advice about maintaining mula bandha all the time? Have you heard advice about maintaining any body position all the time? Join Leslie and students as they examine well-meaning advice, habits, and practices you can follow to honor the balance into your system.

WHAT IS FLEXIBILITY, AND HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY NEED?
Do you do yoga to live a better life, or do you live to do better yoga? Your answer may surprise you, and it will help you learn where to set healthy limits in your own practice.

HONESTY IN YOGA CREDENTIALING
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