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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

The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
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
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
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
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga

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