Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
B.K.S. IYENGARAction is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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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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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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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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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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