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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

B.K.S. Iyengar

In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
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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Body Practice Research
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
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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Blood Cells Practice
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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 golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
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

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