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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
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
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching

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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