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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past 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
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
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love

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