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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

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 body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

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