Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
B.K.S. IYENGARYour body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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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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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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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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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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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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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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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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Be inspired but not proud.
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