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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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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
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
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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind 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
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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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Backbends Meditation Posture
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga

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