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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
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
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
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

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