Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
B.K.S. IYENGAREverybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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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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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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