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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

B.K.S. Iyengar

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
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
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self 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
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul

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