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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains

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