Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The mind is the king of the senses, and the breath is the king of the mind — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye. — 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
