There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear. T. K. V. Desikachar More Quotes by T. K. V. Desikachar More Quotes From T. K. V. Desikachar The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. T. K. V. Desikachar life-changing positive relationship The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart. T. K. V. Desikachar yoga body heart Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind. T. K. V. Desikachar mastery yoga mind A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings T. K. V. Desikachar individual helping teacher Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga. T. K. V. Desikachar breathe yoga practice The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings. T. K. V. Desikachar quality yoga feelings When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits. T. K. V. Desikachar our-actions habit action Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of. T. K. V. Desikachar get-better yoga practice In stages, the impossible becomes possible. T. K. V. Desikachar impossible-becomes-possible stage impossible As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases. T. K. V. Desikachar focus yoga people Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information. T. K. V. Desikachar yoga doe giving The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity. T. K. V. Desikachar clarity recognition confusion It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless. T. K. V. Desikachar smooth important long If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga. T. K. V. Desikachar yoga practice attention Yoga, unlike dance or mime, T. K. V. Desikachar yoga expression watches The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later. T. K. V. Desikachar regret yoga goal Another important aspect is that the masters taught us to move from a deeper source,not just from muscles and joints. T. K. V. Desikachar taught-us important moving The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim. T. K. V. Desikachar yesterday doe life It is not enough to jump if you want to reach the sky. T. K. V. Desikachar enough want sky The world exists to set us free. T. K. V. Desikachar world
