Move from the known to the unknown.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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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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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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