Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
B.K.S. IYENGARYour body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga releases the creative potential in life.
B.K.S. IYENGARFear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou 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. IYENGARYoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
B.K.S. IYENGAROne’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
B.K.S. IYENGARLive before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
B.K.S. IYENGARFrom Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga 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. IYENGARThe body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
B.K.S. IYENGARI don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
B.K.S. IYENGARApproach each asana with freshness every day.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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