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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

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
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs

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