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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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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May Suffering Thinking
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War

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