Mr. Iyengar when asked if asana were contortions, says that they are not contortions of the body.
Patanjali says that the effects of asana leads one to get perfection in body, graceful form, loveliness and beauty, physical, mental and intellectual vigour, firmness and hardness and the brilliance of a diamond, and it brings softness in his heart due to purity of intelligence that equals the purity of the soul.
Each asana has a beautiful shape, grace and elegance that bestows power.
While performing asana there should be no contortion, or refraction. It should not happen even in infinitesimal particle of the muscle tissue.
Asana are not contortions, but the art of positioning the body in different shapes without altering its anatomical structure.
Yogasana are not an entertainment (bhogasana), into twists and bends of strange and unnatural positions, but a part of an inward journey.
Each asana has a beautiful shape, grace and elegance that bestows power.
While performing asana there should be no contortion, or refraction. It should not happen even in infinitesimal particle of the muscle tissue.
Asana are not contortions, but the art of positioning the body in different shapes without altering its anatomical structure.
Yogasana are not an entertainment (bhogasana), into twists and bends of strange and unnatural positions, but a part of an inward journey.
-B.K.S. Iyengar
From Astadala Yogamala vol.7
Namaste.
Pamela Nelson
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