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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?

B.K.S. Iyengar

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
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
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
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
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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 releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
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
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values 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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