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. IYENGARWillpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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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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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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