09/17/2026
Healing became a doorway. I’m headed to Pune soon to study with Guruji’s son Prashant, daughter Sunita, grandson Srineet, and the teacher whose voice I hear in my head, Abhijata.
Yoga was not always something Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar simply accepted.
What changed?
He experienced what the practice could do.
“The real progress in my practice and the acceptance of yoga came through the discovery of yoga as a healing & holistic health therapy.”
— Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar
There is an important distinction here.
Sometimes we begin yoga because we are told it is good for us.
We learn the poses.
We follow the instructions.
We try to practise correctly.
But belief can remain intellectual.
Then experience begins to teach us.
Perhaps the body becomes a little more stable.
A movement that was difficult becomes possible.
Breathing becomes easier.
Pain, fatigue or stiffness is understood differently.
The nervous system settles.
Gradually, yoga is no longer something we are merely “doing”.
We begin to understand why we practice.
For Guruji, healing became a doorway.
Not healing understood only as removing illness, but as discovering that yoga could work with the human being as a whole:
Body.
Breath.
Mind.
Awareness.
Perhaps practice becomes meaningful when experience reveals something that explanation alone cannot.
What made yoga become real for you?
Was there a moment when practice changed from something you did into something you trusted?
Share your experience below.
