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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.

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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
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
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
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
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring

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