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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

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Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
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.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

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