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Yoga is a way of life it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Your body is the child of your soul.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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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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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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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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