Practicing Yoga

Practicing Yoga

The key to a successful yoga practice is to make time for it.
In the Yoga sutras, Patanjali suggests that the only requirement for practicing asanas is to be "steady and comfortable". The body should be held firm yet relaxed, and the practitioner should not experience discomfort of any kind. Tightness or tension observed within the body should be consciously relaxed.

According to yoga practitioners, when bodily control is mastered, they are free from what they call the "pairs of opposites", such as heat and cold, hunger and thirst, joy and grief. This non-dualistic perspective comes from the Sankya school of the Himalayan Masters.