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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
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching

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