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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

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
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
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
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
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
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga

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