B.K.S. Iyengar Thoughts

Regular practice of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and disability.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not look at others’ bodies with envy or with superiority.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

The popularity of yoga and my part in spreading its teachings are a great source of satisfaction to me. But I do not want its widespread popularity to eclipse the depth of what it has to give to the practitioner.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

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.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

A stable mind is like a hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Author: B.K.S. Iyengar