Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
B.K.S. IYENGARDon’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
B.K.S. IYENGARHard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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. IYENGARWhen stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe 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. IYENGARWe have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe 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. IYENGARIgnorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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