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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

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