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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

B.K.S. Iyengar

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life 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
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
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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Journey Self Yoga
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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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Keys Pain Yoga

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