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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

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
I 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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Brain Children Play

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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