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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
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
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
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
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing

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