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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
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
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space

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