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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Practice Self Yoga
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Art Philosophy Spiritual
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Impact Recovery Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Humility Love Yoga
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Art Symmetrical Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Needs Spirit
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
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Balance Eternity Present
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Artist Inspiring Practice
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Lakes Mind Self
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mean Sleep Space
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Anyone Savasana War
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

May Mind World

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.

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