How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IYENGARHow can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IYENGARFear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
B.K.S. IYENGAROur greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
B.K.S. IYENGARThe body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. IYENGARThrough surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
B.K.S. IYENGARHealthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
B.K.S. IYENGARAbhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
B.K.S. IYENGARRelaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
B.K.S. IYENGARI am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
B.K.S. IYENGARAwareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
B.K.S. IYENGARMy Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga releases the creative potential in life.
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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