The pose begins when you want to leave it.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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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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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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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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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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