Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light. — 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
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet… — 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
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
In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Think light! Try to impart a feeling of lightness to the body. Think light. This can be achieved by mentally extending yourself… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — 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
