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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga

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