black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Community Growth Yoga
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
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
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Energy Mind Restless Yoga
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Balance Eternity State
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Challenges Mind Weak
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Fire Flames Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Layers
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 allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Broken Inspiring Yoga
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Dormant Pain Sorrow
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Long Perfect Thinking

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes