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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

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
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony 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
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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Discipline Doubt Give Up
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
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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Body Cells Yogi
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken

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