Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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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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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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