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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

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
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking 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
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher

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