If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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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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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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