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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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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Easier Next Willpower
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

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