Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
B.K.S. IYENGARGive more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
B.K.S. IYENGARHealth begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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. IYENGARBefore peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
B.K.S. IYENGARPeople remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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. IYENGARIf you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
B.K.S. IYENGARIn 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. IYENGARI 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. IYENGARIf you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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