Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
B.K.S. IYENGARYour body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
B.K.S. IYENGARFirst 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. IYENGARSavasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
B.K.S. IYENGARYour body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
B.K.S. IYENGARPractice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. IYENGARBy persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
B.K.S. IYENGARMove from the known to the unknown.
B.K.S. IYENGARIf you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
B.K.S. IYENGARIt took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
B.K.S. IYENGARRelaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
B.K.S. IYENGARWithout the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou 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.
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