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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
Spirituality 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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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

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