Mr. Iyengar popularized yoga practice in the west with his 1966 international bestselling book, Light on Yoga. A groundbreaking teacher and practitioner of yoga worldwide, B.K.S. Iyengar wrote thirteen additional books, including, in 2005, a look at the spiritual side of yoga practice, Light on Life.
“I am branded as Hatha yogi. ‘Ha’ means sun; ‘tha’ means moon. ‘Ha’ means self; ‘tha’ means consciousness. ‘Ha’ means inhalation; ‘tha’ means exhalation. But only many of you think as a solar nerve and a lunar nerve bringing the solar and lunar together on a physiological level is considered as yoga and it is branded as physiological or physical yoga.”
B.K.S. Iyengar photographed at Yoga ‘87, Harvard University, 1987 by Peter Schweitzer
“You have heard that I am an extraordinary man . . . I am just an ordinary person like you all, because ‘extraordinary man’ means something beyond the capacity of a human being. I am not.”