Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
B.K.S. IYENGARThere is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Action is movement with intelligence
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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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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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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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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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