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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
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
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
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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Mean Sleep Space
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga

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