Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength. — Miranda Kerr
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is the art and science of living. — Indra Devi
Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully. — Donna Farhi
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony. — Yehudi Menuhin
Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures. — Mark Whitwell
Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. — Patanjali
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. — Sri Aurobindo
Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind. — Naval Ravikant
Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. — Erich Schiffmann
Ancient yoga, and its focus on prana, sitting, and breathing, has turned into a form of aerobic exercise. — James Nestor
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness. — Sri Aurobindo
I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga. — Danica McKellar
Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better. — Chuck Miller
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life. — Jaggi Vasudev
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. — Bob Harper
Everything you need, you courage, strength, compassion and love; everything you need is already within you.
Daily Yoga Practice Quotes
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — Alan Watts
Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others — Donna Farhi
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go. — Pema Chodron
Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself. — Darren Hardy
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. — Buddha
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there. — Rumi
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes. — Peter McWilliams
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power. — Nirmala Srivastava
Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit. — Bikram Choudhury
You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you. — Nirmala Srivastava
Once a person steps into sin, the stagnating power of sin becomes activated in the person’s life. — Enoch Adeboye
I do a lot of body weight stuff, power work, with your legs as well. There are weights involved now and again. There is a bit of mixture. — Harry Kane
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. — Eckhart Tolle
Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light. — Surya Das
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Yoga And Food Quotes
There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise. — Dharma Mittra
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious. — Ramana Maharshi
I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room. — Elizabeth Lesser
For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent. — Mariel Hemingway
Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult. — Alice Walker
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
I lack routine with yoga, sleep, and food but do my best to keep consistency amongst the chaos. — Kathryn Budig
If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen. — Dharma Mittra
Yoga Quotes
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga. — K. Pattabhi Jois
You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. — Dalai Lama
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — Dogen
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience. — Jaggi Vasudev
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move. — Rumi
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho
The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization. — Luther Standing Bear
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda
In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes. — Donna Farhi
Hot Yoga Quotes
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. — Sting
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. — Sharon Gannon
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. — Rumi
I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday. — Ryan Sheckler
Unite has a great dry shampoo called 7Seconds. After a hot yoga class, when I'm super sweaty I spray this on and my hair comes back to life. Miraculous! — Jennifer Morrison
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. — Sharon Gannon
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. — Rumi
Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so. — Shawn Johnson
I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga. — Patricia Velasquez
I get really bored really easily, so I'm a big believer and advocate of changing it up. One day, I'll do a power yoga or hot yoga day, and then go into a more intense day of HIIT training or boxing. I always have a bit of dance in there too. — Rachele Brooke Smith
Meditation Practice Quotes
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. — Mary Pipher
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild. — Albert Hofmann
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through. — Chogyam Trungpa
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity. — U.G. Krishnamurti
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility. — Gary Snyder
Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind. — Swami Muktananda
Yoga And Life Quotes
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life. — Sivananda
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. — Donna Farhi
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. — Nhat Hanh
Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something. — Swami Satchidananda
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts
Love is the bridge between you and everything. — Rumi
Inspirational Yoga Quotes
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. — Pema Chodron
Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. — Deepak Chopra
If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others. — Dalai Lama
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. — Rumi
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. — Amrit Desai
Hatha Yoga Quotes
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. — Patanjali
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward. — Bikram Choudhury
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. — Phillip Moffitt
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. — B.K.S. Iyengar
If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. — Eckhart Tolle
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. — B.K.S. Iyengar
People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand. — Rajashree Choudhury
The pose begins when you want to leave it. — B.K.S. Iyengar
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. — Douglas Groothuis
Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion. — K. Pattabhi Jois
It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best. — K. Pattabhi Jois
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. — Jack Kornfield
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. — K. Pattabhi Jois
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are. — Adyashanti
Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. — Kripalvananda
I get up in the morning and I go to practice like everyone else. — Kylian Mbappe
Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind. — Geeta Iyengar
Practicing yoga does not eliminate life’s challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life’s distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise. — Donna Farhi
Mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Buddha
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. — Ricky Williams
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. — Carl Jung
Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels. — Geeta Iyengar
Gritty people do more deliberate practice and experience more flow. — Angela Duckworth
Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent. — Donna Farhi
Deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance. — Angela Duckworth
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun. — B.K.S. Iyengar
It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come. — Dharma Mittra
If you keep practicing in the same time and place, what once took conscious thought to initiate becomes automatic. — Angela Duckworth
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness. — Albert Einstein
Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer. — Eckhart Tolle
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