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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life 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
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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.
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Flower Yield Yoga
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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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Attention Desire Intelligent
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
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
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud

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