A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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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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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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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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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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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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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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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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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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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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