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

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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
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
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

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