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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
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 releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
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
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
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice

Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

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