Yoga Asana

Photos via Dharma Yoga NYC's blog.

What do we know of yoga postures? What are they meant to do, and how should we do them?

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The postures are good for keeping the physical body healthy and for cultivating mental powers.

-Sri Dharma Mittra

 

Two essentials for posture: Yoga has been defined as the mastery of the thought patterns of mind field (1.2), so that Self-realization can be experienced (1.3). To be able to do the meditation practices that allow this, it is essential that the posture be (2.46): steady and comfortable.

-The Yoga Sutras

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

- B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga can take you to a deeper place, a spiritual center, if you are open to the possibility. Be receptive as you practice today. Namaste.