The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings. - T.K.V. Desikachar

Another meaning of the word yoga is “to tie the strands of the mind together.

There are eight components of Yoga. These are: yama, our attitudes toward our environment. niyama, our attitudes toward ourselves. āsana, the practice of body exercises. prāṇāyāma, the practice of breathing exercises. pratyāhāra, the restraint of our senses. dhārāna, the ability to direct our minds. dhyāna, the ability to develop interactions with what we seek to understand. samādhi, complete integration with the object to be understood.

Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.