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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
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
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
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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Practice Understanding Yesterday
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
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

A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

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