black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Painting relief
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Today Yesterday Yoga
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
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Balance Eternity State
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Celebration Dies Lively
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mind Soul Training
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Attitude Skills Yoga
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. IYENGAR

Differences Mind Yoga
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Discrimination Men Real
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Needs Spirit
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Divinity Flames Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Progress
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Mind Practice
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Cells Song Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Discrimination Mind
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

Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes