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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
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
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason

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