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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
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
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space

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