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

B.K.S. Iyengar

I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
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
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
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
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War

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