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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

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light

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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