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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way 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
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education

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