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Learning is as much an art as teaching

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
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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Easier Next Willpower
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga

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