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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

B.K.S. Iyengar

It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
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
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking

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