A Quote by B.K.S. Iyengar

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

B.K.S. Iyengar

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B.K.S. Iyengar
Indian - Teacher
December 14, 1918 - August 20, 2014

I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.

Christen Press

Fortunately, good posture - like poor posture - is habit forming.

Denise Austin

Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

Bikram Choudhury

When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'

Saint John Chrysostom

Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

Dan Barker

Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Joseph Pilates

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

Marilynne Robinson

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

Seth Godin

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Your best posture is your next posture.

Morgan Freeman

I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

George Saunders

We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.

Joe Sestak

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.

Barack Obama

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

Marilynne Robinson

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.