Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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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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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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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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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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