Certified Ashtanga yoga teachers
‘One who has control over the mind:
is tranquil in heat and cold,
in pleasure and pain, in honour and dishonour
and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self’
– Bhagavad Gita (VI,7)
STHIRA SUKHAM ASANAM
‘Asana is steadiness and ease’ (of posture and mind)
– Yoga Sutras (2:46)
‘A person who has given up all need for sensory gratification,
who lives free from desires, has surrendered all sense of ownership
and is devoid of false ego, can then attain real peace’
– Bhagavad Gita (II:71)