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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

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
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
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars

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