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The pose begins when you want to leave it.

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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
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
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
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
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring 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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
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

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