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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul

B.K.S. Iyengar

Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
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
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
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
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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Asana Challenges Gains
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind

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