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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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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Body Self Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason

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