That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made… — 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
