B.K.S. Iyengar on looks
B.K.S. Iyengar212 quotes“Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.”
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Move from the known to the unknown.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar
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