black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

B.K.S. Iyengar

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Heart Life Yoga
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Past Yoga
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Bird Practice Soul
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Needs Spirit
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Cells Intelligent Skins
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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Effort Practice Yoga
Healthy 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. IYENGAR

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

Active Dull Easy
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
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Rivers Uplifting Water
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Backbends Meditation Posture
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Posture Study
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Important Soul
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Goal Soul Yoga

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes