Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs 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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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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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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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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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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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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