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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
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
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self 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
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

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