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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing 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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
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

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