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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

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
Yoga 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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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
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
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry

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