The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind
This might mean noticing the feeling of muscles stiffening as they take up the work of a posture, then releasing and softening
Peter Blackaby • Intelligent Yoga: Listening to the Body’s Innate Wisdom
if the mind is fully fixed and absorbed without distraction on the practice of āsana, for whatever motive, it can still attain fixity and stillness.
Edwin F. Bryant • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
the sequential joining together and separating of complementary opposites as a means of staying present, mindful, and alert to the feelings, thoughts, sensations, and insights that may—or may not—arise.
Mary Taylor • The Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga
The purpose of the practices presented here is to uncover fundamental consciousness as the foundational ground of our being. This ground can be called the essence of our being because it is experienced as unchanging and unmoving. Unlike all of the changing content of our experience, it is not constructed or imagined—it is revealed as we refine and
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