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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos 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
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason

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