I donโt bring yesterdayโs poses to todayโs practice. I know yesterdayโs poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I donโt want yesterdayโs experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
B.K.S. IyengarBackbends 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.
B.K.S. IyengarAs long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
B.K.S. IyengarSpirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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