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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

B.K.S. Iyengar

While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery 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

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