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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
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
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
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
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga

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