Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
B.K.S. IYENGARBackbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
B.K.S. IYENGARGive more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
B.K.S. IYENGARAn intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou exist without the feeling of existence.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
B.K.S. IYENGARNothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
B.K.S. IYENGARAction is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
B.K.S. IYENGARPersistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
B.K.S. IYENGARI think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
B.K.S. IYENGARBefore peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
B.K.S. IYENGARThere is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
B.K.S. IYENGARLife means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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