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. IYENGARThe highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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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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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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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 do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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