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- Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
- All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
- You must do the asana with your soul. How can you do an asana with your soul? We can only do it with the organ…
- Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
- Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
- Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be…
- Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for…
- You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the…
- The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any…
- The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
- In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence…
- You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the…
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