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

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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
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky

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