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Learning is as much an art as teaching

B.K.S. Iyengar

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief

Learning is as much an art as teaching

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