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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga

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