“Yoga sadhana is meant to knit the fibers to the skin and skin to the fibers so that they coil and interweave the outer kośa (musculoskeletal level of being) into the atma kośa (soul level). Only then can the Oneness of the power we create within ourselves be integrated with the universal power that surrounds us. The power of awareness is nothing less than cosmic intelligence seeping and soaking into the dark spaces of our being to illuminate them with consciousness. Consciousness has to settle down with clarity, brightness, and serenity..” Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, Light on Life, p. 172.