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.
B.K.S. IYENGARHealthy 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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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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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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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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