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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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.
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Brain Children Play
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart 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
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice

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