Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
B.K.S. IYENGARLearning is as much an art as teaching
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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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 needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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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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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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