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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
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
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
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
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind

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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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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