The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — 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
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
People remind me of my age, but while practicing I am beyond my body and its age. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block? — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that… — 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
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity. — 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
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine spirit which lives through the body. — 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
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you… — 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
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
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
