The following excerpt is from Ganga's book, Yoga Beyond Belief, Chapter Seven: Injury, Pain and Healing. It comes from the section entitled: There Is No Such Thing as Pain.

In this chapter, Ganga shares insights and experiences from a lifetime of yoga practice and inquiry into living. Wisdom gleaned from his personal asana practice, to travels to a leper colony in India, or a San Francisco methadone clinic with a doctor friend, or time teaching thousands of students, his observations and lived experience give us tools to navigate this vast subject.

“I realized there is no such thing as one kind of pain. I saw, instead, that pain is a language, an entire information system. When we resist pain and lump it into one category we label “pain,” we miss the many layers and nuances of information being conveyed. Pain is one of the voices of the body’s intelligence.”