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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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

The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

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