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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
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
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga

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