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Yoga 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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga

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