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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self 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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi

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