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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

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
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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Life Sweat Yoga
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
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
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga

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