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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
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
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga

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