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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

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
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
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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Light Special Yoga
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

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