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B.K.S. Iyengar

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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise called "Iyengar Yoga", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world.

Quick Facts About B.K.S. Iyengar

Notable works: Light on Yoga

About B.K.S. Iyengar

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise called "Iyengar Yoga", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world. He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who is often called "the father of modern yoga". He has been credited with popularizing yoga, first in India and then around the world.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar · Page 3

Do not live in the future, only the present is real

Funny

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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

Forced

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Learning is as much an art as teaching

Art

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Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.

Active

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Yoga is a means and an end.

Ends

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You exist without the feeling of existence.

Exist

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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

Education

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In each pose there should be repose.

Funny

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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

Brain

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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

Highest

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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.

Breath

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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability

Faces

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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.

Accomplish

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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

Body

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Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

Inspirational

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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

Adjustment

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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress

Aim

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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which…

Divine

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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is…

Building

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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these…

Body

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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the…

Concrete

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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

Action

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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to…

Body

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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of…

Body

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Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution…

Aspiration

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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you…

Failure

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A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained…

Body

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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily…

Action

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You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when…

Achievement

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When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the…

Action

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The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice,…

Anxiety

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Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can…

Backbends

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Approach each asana with freshness every day.

Approach

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Be inspired but not proud.

Inspiration

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Action is movement with intelligence

Action

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Move from the known to the unknown.

Change and growth

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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

Hub

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As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

Body

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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.

Body

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People remind me of my age, but while practicing I am beyond my body and its age.

Age

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