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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
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
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga

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