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

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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go 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
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga

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