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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills 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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate

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