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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
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
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
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 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
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

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

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