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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

Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice 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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Doe Flower Water
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Goal Soul Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Brain Children Play
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity

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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