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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga

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