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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
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
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

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