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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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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Blood Cells Practice
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
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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Heart Life Yoga
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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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Backbends Meditation Posture
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga

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