When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate,… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In order to find out how to reveal our innermost Being, the sages explored the various sheaths of existence, starting from body… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Regarding perfection, that’s a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi,… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share