black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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. IYENGAR

Backbends Meditation Posture
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mind Practice Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Infinite Littles Pieces
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Arrows Soul Yoga
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Doe Flower Water
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Posture
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Awareness Moving Way
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Art Symmetrical Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Practice Understanding Yesterday
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Accurate Movement Spine
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Humility Love Yoga
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Past Yoga
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mind Party Two
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

May Suffering Thinking
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Pose Relaxation Repose
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

Heart Life Yoga

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes