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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

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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
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
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga

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