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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
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 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
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
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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Emotional Intellectual Soul
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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga

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