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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

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul

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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