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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
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
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
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
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain

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