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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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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
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
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
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
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga

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