Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
B.K.S. IYENGARIt is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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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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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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