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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
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
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga

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