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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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
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
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
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
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
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
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind 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
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken

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