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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
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
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
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
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
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

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