Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
B.K.S. IYENGARI 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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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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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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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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