Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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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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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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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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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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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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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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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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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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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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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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