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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga

I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

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