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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga

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