The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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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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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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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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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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