If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself. — 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
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 mind is the king of the senses, and the breath is the king of the mind — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life. — 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
