Quotes About Yoga

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life's problems and challenges.

Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

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.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Elaine Oliver is one of those people who thinks she needs to yell into a cell phone and cannot imagine anyone else might hear her conversation. 'I'm stiff from that yoga class Juana made me go to!' she was shouting, presumably to Dad. 'I did something to my groin area. ... Sure, you can massage it later.

Asanas attune the body to meditation, just as a guitar is tuned before a performance.

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.

I have a flexible body.

I can bend over and put my head between my legs, stick my foot over my head, and stand one leg.

Part of my being on this earth is to connect with and bring joy to people wherever I am. My hope is that I can encourage people to approach yoga more as a "free-me" practice than a "fix-me" one; a way to discover the truth of who they truly are so they might rest in their true nature, which is basic goodness. -Linda Sparrowe

He's my best friend. His name is Dane, he owns a coffee shop near my yoga studio. I've known him for a few years, since he opened the place. We go to movies, sometimes we hike, we have long talks, political arguments, discuss books we like. When there's live music around here, we try to go.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head.

In China the integration of these methods is called Qigong (Chi Kung), meaning "vitality enhancement practice." In India it is called Yoga. Both of these Asian traditions of self-healing have been called "internal exercises," "moving meditation," or "meditation in motion.

A fair portion of my anger had returned, but alongside it ran the memory of those few seconds on the yoga mat in the death pose. I felt as if I had been shown a kind of essential secret, something so subtle and quiet and small(and yet so important)that I could gone my entire adult life and never even imagined such a thing existed.

The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend—it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.

When nonviolence in speech, thought, and action is established, one's aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one's presence. Yoga Sutras

I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.