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

B.K.S. Iyengar

Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People

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