Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
B.K.S. IYENGARYour body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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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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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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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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Action is movement with intelligence
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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