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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
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
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine

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