Introduction🔗

We often forget to allow some time for meditation during yoga practice. It is so common these days to attend a yoga class and go through an intense asana practice right till the end of the class, and simply walk away! It is like driving a hundred miles to the beach, take a look and drive back without even touching the sand!

We need to remind ourselves of the purpose of asanas. Patanjali says in the Yoga Sutras, "once the steady and comfortable pose is achieved, one should proceed to the deeper and subtler levels of yoga", that is pranayama and meditation. Asanas are performed to take away the restlessness or dullness, energize and tune the body so that we can easily enter into the deeper dimensions and experiences of yoga.