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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
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
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
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

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