Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
B.K.S. IYENGARWithout the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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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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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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