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• Know your breath and its unique characteristics in Āsana and you will……

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“The eternal teacher is not subject to death.”
– TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 26

“Abhiniveśā is the extra-ordinary
instinctive urge to survive at any cost.
No one is spared. In a way,
it is a dislike about one’s death.”
– T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

“There are essentially three causes for fear….
desire, disease and death.”
– T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

“Āsana alone can be a support for
our outer relationship with living.
However, can Āsana alone be a support
for our inner relationship with dying?
Especially as our disposition towards
clinging to life is continuous, as well as
being deeply buried within our psyche.
This is why Yoga offers vehicles beyond Āsana
for the inner and especially the final journey.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

“A person who is physically fit and
who has been cleansed by the Agni of Dhyānam
has no fear of sickness, disease, age or death.”
– T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Three verse 2

“Breath is indispensable for life
and its absence is death.
Hence the necessity to make it longer
and accumulate the Prāṇa Śakti.
Just as a rich man accumulates money slowly to get wealthy,
so also one should practice every day,
through the proper use of the breath in Āsana,
to maintain good health.”
– T Krishnamacharya‘s response to a question on breathing.

“There is no death for the Puruṣa
because there is no change for it,
and what is death but change.”
– TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga
Chapter Six Page 87

“We never know when we are going to die.
So we must prepare for death.
Because at the moment of death
you become what you think.”
– TKV Desikachar France 1983

“Vīrabhadrāsana represents the fighting stance of the  warrior
Vīrabhadra, who is said to represent the fierce form of Maṅgala.
He was created by Śiva from a matted lock of his own hair,
in a vengeful response to the death of his wife Satī after
her self-immolation in the sacrificial fire at her father’s Yajña.
It’s a demanding standing position coupled with a backbend in the spine
to give the Āsana its opening energising and strengthening qualities.
The focus of attention can be brought to the chest and upper back
through its form and the emphasis on the breath, especially the inhalation.
Its role as an expansive, demanding standing Āsana can be
graduated to suit the practice capacity of the student.”
– 108 Postural Practice Pointers

“Initially our Yoga Journey is
towards our relationship with living.
Ultimately our Yoga Journey is
towards our relationship with dying.”
– 108 Study Path Pointers