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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

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery 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
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
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
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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
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

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