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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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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Inspiring Success 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
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit

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