"When you practice the hatha yoga postures, remember that you are not practicing merely a system of calisthenics. You are practicing what might be called meditation in action, movement meditation, as if you were doing almost a kind of spiritual dance. Remember, this is not sports. You don't jump into a pose and jump out of it. The way you get into and out of a pose is almost as important as the pose itself. It helps to create a mood, a state of consciousness. Remember that your state of consciousness while doing the poses is a very, very important part of the poses. Because finally speaking, these poses are intended to change your whole being. And that being is a radiation outward from within. What you are within, that you will be without."