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You are only as young as your spine is flexible.
Joseph Pilates
'You are only as youthful as your back is pliant.'
2.
The study of asana is not about mastering posture.
It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
B.K.S. Iyengar
3.
The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.
Donna Farhi
4.
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
Bob Harper
5.
You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.
Laura Huxley
9.
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
B.K.S. Iyengar
11.
The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
Sivananda
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
Sharon Gannon
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.
Patanjali
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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
B.K.S. Iyengar
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
B.K.S. Iyengar
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Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.
Kathryn Budig
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
B.K.S. Iyengar