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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
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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Journey Self 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
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release 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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
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
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher

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