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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

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
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
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
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
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind

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