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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall

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