In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by… — 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
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice. — 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
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
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
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 I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice].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
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. — 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
