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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
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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Keys Pain Yoga
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

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