The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief. — 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
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit. — 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 backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere. — 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
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence. — 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
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental… — 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
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
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not… — 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
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and… — 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
When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.… — 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
As long as you do not feel the serenity in the body, in each and every joint, there is no chance for… — 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
In order to find out how to reveal our innermost Being, the sages explored the various sheaths of existence, starting from body… — 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
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind. — 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
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body. — 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
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom! — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself. — 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
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the… — 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
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 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)
