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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

B.K.S. Iyengar

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
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
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
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
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

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