As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. — 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
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation. — 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
Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — 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
Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is… — 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
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn. — 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
“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
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that… — 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 has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery… — 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
