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

B.K.S. Iyengar

It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
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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Cutting Winning Yoga
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga

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