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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
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 allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
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
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice

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