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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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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light

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