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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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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
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
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
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

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