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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
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
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study

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