“When I still find some parts of my body that I have not found before, I tell myself, yes I am progressing scientifically… 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

Source: BBC News "India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies"

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Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918–2014

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