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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
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 aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
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
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga

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