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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
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
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real

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