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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
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
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
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
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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Challenges Disturbance Moving
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga

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