Quotes from Rod Stryker

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

I am passionate about learning to most fully embody the spark that is the source of life, the hidden glory of the Creator.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Yoga is about life, this means all of life, not just part of it.

Few things are more powerful than learning to trust that your path to a fulfilled life - and the glorious destiny that you are meant to share with the world - is part of your soul's blueprint.

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.

Learning to honor all four of your soul's desires compels you to thrive at every level, leads to lasting happiness as well as a complete and balanced life.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.