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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying

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