Community Quote by B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.” quote by B.K.S. Iyengar — Download Open image

“Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.”

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Learning is as much an art as teaching

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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to…

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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses

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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

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