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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
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
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga

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