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Breath 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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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
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
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
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

Breath 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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Breath 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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