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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

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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
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
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
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
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May 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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga

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