It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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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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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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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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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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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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