Yoga Quotes

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.

Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

You have to find your own tricks!

Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga

See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.

Don't teach too many postures; just the main ones, and hold them for a long time.

I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in.

Sometimes you think you are 100% right, but you are 100% wrong!

Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.

It's like crazy how many different kinds of yoga there are. And now that they have it for surfers and for this one and for that one.

I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.

The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.

I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.

I obviously swear by yoga for staying mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually balanced.

Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

Because of old sports injuries, yoga has become a physical lifesaver.

Yoga is a big part of my destressing. Even sitting on the floor for 10 minutes to center myself, stretch and relax can be a huge game changer.

I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.

I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.

To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.

One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.

The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.

We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.

There is nothing but God.

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.