Health Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

17 Health quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

B.K.S. Iyengar’s perspective merges precise as practice with holistic health. In seventeen brief notes he illustrates how alignment, breath, and awareness shape well‑being, offering a quiet guide for practitioners.

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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit.

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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays…

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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the…

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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and…

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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental…

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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing…

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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily…

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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery…

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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of…

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A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained…

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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily…

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The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.…

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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony…

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“For one who lacks ethical discipline and perfect physical health, there can be no spiritual illumination. Body, mind and spirit are inseparable:…

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A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest…

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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of…

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Learning is as much an art as teaching

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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to…

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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses

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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external…

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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

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Do not live in the future, only the present is real

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