I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
B.K.S. IYENGARThe brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
-
-
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
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 -
Without education, confidence does not come.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
We 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. IYENGAR -
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
B.K.S. IYENGAR






