“Yoga should not be a training for body control; on the contrary, it must bring freedom to the body, all the freedom it needs.
Yoga should help us acquire the order in the body that is necessary for it to function properly.
Freedom does not mean licence (alcohol, drugs, smoking, sex), or letting the body fool around with its desires.
Freedom is order in both body and mind. We must give the body clear directions (as we would a horse), and these should be dictated not by ambition, duties or reactions, but by a precise and lucid perception of what we feel. If we are sensitive to the requests of the body, it will respond spontaneously in an unexpected, efftless way. We must create a relationship, make friends with our bodies as well as with our minds.
Freedom is the state of love. There is no love without freedom. When love is expressed totally through free, healthy, orderly “body-mind”, there is beauty.”
Vanda Scaravelli, Awakening the spine. Yoga for health, vitality and energy.
On Attention p56