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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice 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
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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 cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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