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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.

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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
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
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
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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Inspiring Mean Yoga
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
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
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People

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