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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

B.K.S. Iyengar

While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
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
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise

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