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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 has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success 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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
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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Journey Self Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
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
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
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
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
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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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying

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