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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

B.K.S. Iyengar

In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture

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