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the chest and body should be kept still so that the process of breath control is undertaken by the abdominal muscles. At

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.

a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined and the soul gradually liberated.

In his Tree of Yoga, Iyengar presents āsana, yogic posture, as not just the third of the eight limbs of yoga but also as a self-contained object of meditation that can itself bring about samādhi, the ultimate goal of yoga, if approached and undertaken correctly.