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In 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!

B.K.S. Iyengar

I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
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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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice 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
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason

In 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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