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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
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
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind

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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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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