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The pose begins when you want to leave it.

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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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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 primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
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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Light Special Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release 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
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
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga

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