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Breath is the king of mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer

Breath is the king of mind.

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