We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
B.K.S. IYENGARIn whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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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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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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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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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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