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.
B.K.S. IYENGARIn your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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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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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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