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This is not a spiritual statement. It is not wishful thinking or a poem. It is a simple fact of our situation. You don’t need to seek any experience or change of state.

The heart of yoga, Desikachar explained, is not the poses, the practices, or the philosophy, but the relationship between the teacher and the student.

You are the power of the cosmos, that you are mother nature perceiving mother nature, and that your body is an extreme intelligence..

For seven years, Krishnamacharya studied with his Himalayan teacher Rama Mohan Brahmachari. The Hatha Yoga that Brahmachari passed on came out of the vast ancient tradition of Tantra.

Life is a Unity. Every body is contributing; every part of your body is contributing, and every part of your life is contributing.

The heart on the right flows into the heart in the middle (anahata cakra) which flows into the beautiful physical heart and the flesh of the whole body.