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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

B.K.S. Iyengar

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success 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
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
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
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
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
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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May Suffering Thinking
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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Practice Understanding Yesterday
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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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Rivers Uplifting Water
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga

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