Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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