B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga Teacher
"The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself."
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Posture
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B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga Teacher
"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."
B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga Teacher
"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."
Loretta Young
Actress
"Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her."
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"What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture."
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"Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active."
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"The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is."
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"A drink this good deserves one's best posture."
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"I have very bad posture."
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