If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
B.K.S. IYENGARRegular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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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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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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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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