Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person… — 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
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
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can… — 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
