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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 beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
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
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga

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

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