The practice of Asana, is necessary to teach us how to sit erect keeping ourselves healthy and channeling the current of prana towards the final goal of spirituality. Poses have been devised to bring a rich supply of blood to the brain and to the various parts of the spinal column. Yoga asana works by stretching, bending and twisting the spinal column in different directions to promote the health of the nerves. When the body is purified, Prana can be conserved and the individual can become healthy and conscious.

Regularity in yoga asana practice is an absolute necessity if one wishes to release the full potential of the Yoga process. If the foundations of a building are not correctly laid, the superstructure will fall down. So too, if a student of Yoga has not gained a certain degree of mastery over the person can not successfully proceed to the advanced disciplines.

Yoga is a direct experience of the vast interrelatedness of all life and of all things. You will feel at peace at the end of a Hatha yoga (yoga asana) class because there is a natural realignment of your body which leads to a natural realignment of your perception of life and of who you are.

"Hatha Yoga is not the ultimate goal. Hatha Yoga makes us aware that the body with its inestimable qualities is everything that we have in life; for we enter this world naked and leave this world naked. For that reason we must get the best out of our body. The more we strive to unfold the perfection's of the body, the more quickly our mental capacities unfold: power of concentration, memory, will-power and resolution. The blessing of Hatha Yoga is threefold; health, well-being and long life."

---Selvarajan Yesudian.