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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

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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
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga

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