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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

Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water

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