The pose begins when you want to leave it.
B.K.S. IYENGARHatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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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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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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