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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 releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
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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Heart Life Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth 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
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
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
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
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

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