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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

We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Doe Way Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
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
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga

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