Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
B.K.S. IYENGARI think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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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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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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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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