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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

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
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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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga

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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