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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

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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
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
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
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
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
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
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
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

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

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