Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
B.K.S. IYENGARSavasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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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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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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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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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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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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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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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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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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