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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose

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