As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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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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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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