Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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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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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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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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