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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga

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