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

B.K.S. Iyengar

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
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

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