Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration,… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break. — 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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows… — 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
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is imbued with the three qualities (gunas) of luminosity (sattva), vibrancy (rajas) and inertia (tamas). The gunas also colour our actions:… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Regarding perfection, that’s a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“So we would say in yoga that the subtle precedes the gross, or spirit precedes matter. But yoga says we must deal… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury. — 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
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