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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking

Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

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