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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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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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
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
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness 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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