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		It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				K. Pattabhi Jois
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mariel Hemingway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adam Rippon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People on a spiritual path (personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga, and so forth) are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there's an important reason for this: people on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marianne Williamson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Yoga sequences are designed to uncover our birthright: love, joy, and freedom. The body can experience these essences as space, ease, and liberation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Colleen Saidman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alex Kingston
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pom Klementieff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kim Raver
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Payal Kadakia
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Finger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I try to do yoga. I really enjoy stretching and having a nice yoga class or taking a run on the beach. I'm not a big fan of the gym. I try to be out as much as possible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Ramsey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				M. F. K. Fisher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Now by knowing absolute truth you understand each other much more. That means a collective consciousness, a new dimension in your awareness. You can feel others on your finger tips and if you know how to correct your centers you can help them. Then who is the other? The microcosm becomes the macrocosm.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nirmala Srivastava
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Dreger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nirmala Srivastava