The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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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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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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