10/09/2026
Check in with how you treat yourself while you’re on the mat. If you’re not breathing properly, forcing yourself into poses and letting your focus go, you’re not practicing yoga. 🧘🏻♀️
When we make a mindful and knowledgeable choice to exercise in a way that leads us toward physical wellbeing and gradually increasing inner calm, that exercise is leading to yoga, and therefore that exercise is asana. To achieve this, we need to add mindful breathing, inner calmness, positive emotion, and clear thoughts to the exercises we do.
The role of asana in traditional hatha yoga path is principally to prepare for the deeper practice of bandhas and breath control. In the physical health dimension, to practice effective asana, we must cultivate the functional capacities we need: strength, stability, awareness, mobility, alignment, relaxation, agility. Asana that uses functional movement principles will lead to better wellbeing and is therefore a better foundation for the other practices of yoga. But do be sure to take a holistic view and look beyond the locomotor system too! 🙂
— Dr. Ganesh Mohan
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