black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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

Cells Song Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Aim Awareness Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Motivational Success
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Empty Empty Mind Mind
The 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. IYENGAR

Body Cells Yogi
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
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Anyone Savasana War
Health 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. IYENGAR

Emotional Intellectual Soul
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
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Calm Chaos Yoga
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Men Spiritual Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Brain
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Kind May Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Active Dull Easy
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Journey Mean Soul
You exist without the feeling of existence.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Existence Feelings Inspiring
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Illumination Journey Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Willingness Willpower
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Contentment Failure Success
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Self Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Effort Practice Yoga
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Strive Today Twelve
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Bliss Inspiring Missing
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

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes