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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

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 flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga

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