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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

B.K.S. Iyengar

From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

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