If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
B.K.S. IYENGARTrue concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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