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Breath is the king of mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
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
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga

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