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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
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
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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