As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing… — 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
To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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