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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

B.K.S. Iyengar

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
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
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
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical 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
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness

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