B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

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.

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.

Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.