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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
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
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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga

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