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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
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
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
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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Body Practice Research
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

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