Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
B.K.S. IYENGARBreath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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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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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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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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