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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga

I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

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