As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which… — 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
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 whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity. — 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
The mind is the king of the senses, and the breath is the king of the mind — 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
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady. — 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
You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress. — 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
One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as… — 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
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides… — 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