We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
B.K.S. IYENGARRelaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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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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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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