quotes about Asana
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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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.
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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 -
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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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 -
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.
-- Donna FarhiSource : Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.17, Macmillan
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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