"The old fitness metality is over. We are way past tearing ourselves to shreds simply to be more aethetically pleasing. Power yoga is about working hard sensitively. It's about feeling good, not just looking good. The tone and shapeliness you attain from this work is a by-product. The focus here is balance and healing."
--Bryan Kest

The purpose of yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love. ...The apparently simple benefits that accrue from the regular practice of yoga can effect your life in very profound ways. Do not underestimate the value of being balanced, centered, and coordinated, of being strong and light, of being more flexible without pain, experiencing the subsequent feelings of invisibility or transparency, and of being more sensitive...Yoga will make you sensitive to the stillness, the presence, the hush, the peace of God"
--Erich Schiffmann

"Humor obviously makes people relax and makes them more open to listening to what yoga has to offer them. It promotes a certain level of open-mindedness and relaxation. I think of humor as sort of like shaking out the muscles of the brain"
--George Purvis