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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

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
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells 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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
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
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People

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