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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
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
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga

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