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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

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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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
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
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
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.
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Body Self Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind

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