Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious. – David Williams, as quoted on yoga.com

It was obvious to me that for optimal fitness, yoga and Pilates belonged together…. Yogilates was born from my desire to create an accessible and effective regimen that contained the best of both techniques and would be ideal for everyone…. – Jonathan Urla, Yogilates: Integrating Yoga and Pilates for Complete Fitness, Str

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called the still point of the turning world. – Barbara Stoler Miller