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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
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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Bird Practice Soul
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors 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
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi

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