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Asana is the practice of right posture to create physical comfort and ease, eliminate restlessness, and prepare the body to be undistracted in meditation.
Jennie Lee • True Yoga: Practicing With the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment
Asana involves learning to sit, stand, lie down, and relax in a manner that provides maximum comfort while consuming minimum energy.
Mel Robin • A 21st-Century Yogasanalia: Celebrating the Integration of Yoga, Science, and Medicine
a more action-oriented type of yoga referred to here by Patañjali as kriyā-yoga and consisting of discipline, tapas; study, svādhyāya; and dedication to God, Īśvara-praṇidhāna.
Edwin F. Bryant • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
That is called sukhasana, the asana of happiness. That asana of the Heart is peaceful, and gives happiness. There is no need for any other asana for those who are seated in that one.23
Ramana Maharshi • Be As You Are: The spiritual teachings and wisdom of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana)
In his Tree of Yoga, Iyengar presents āsana, yogic posture, as not just the third of the eight limbs of yoga but also as a self-contained object of meditation that can itself bring about samādhi, the ultimate goal of yoga, if approached and undertaken correctly.