It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — 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
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.” — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels. — 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
