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

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
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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Asana Body Posture
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing

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