It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. — 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
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of… — 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
Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or… — 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 I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice].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 Image
A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
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 Image
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye. — 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 it, and my mind and my intelligence gets better in my sadhana, and it reaches a certain place. When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate…” quote by B.K.S. Iyengar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8a/b-k-s-iyengar-949_awareness_regarding-perfection-that-s-a-very-diffi_2205144.jpg)
