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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

B.K.S. Iyengar

While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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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Block Soul Wall
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
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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Attitude Skills Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga

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