Quotes About Yoga

Yogic practice intentionally re-creates the physical structure: the musculoskeletal, neurological, digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and immune systems are all literally remade through the regular practice of postures and conscious breathing.

Blessed is the man who, having subdued all his passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil; for such an equality is called yoga.

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.

If you're feeling sluggish, do a back bend.

The care of the body, under the intelligent control of the mind, is an important branch of yogi philosophy, and is known as 'Hatha Yoga,' " Ramacharaka writes.

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.

I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

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

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

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

Fall in love with all knowing manifestations of one. You may find those connections between you and all through yoga and meditation.

The secrets of advanced meditation were shrouded in secrecy because of respect for, and even fear of, their innate power. Just as governments guard state secrets of power, the ancient yoga masters guarded these secrets of spiritual power. They believed that power has the capacity to corrupt, and that it would be disastrous for the wrong person to learn these secrets.

In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.

You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.

Yoga doesn't take time, it gives time.

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

All the basic principles of Bhakti yoga are richly exemplified in Christianity. From the Hindu point of view, Christianity is one great brilliantly lit highway toward God, not greater than other paths, but more clearly marked. On this path God is conceived differently than in jnana yoga, where the guiding image was of an infinite sea of being underlying the waves of our finite selves. This sea typified the all-pervading Self, which is a much within us as without.

Raja yoga with asanas (poses and breathing) is a way of leading the inquirer to direct personal experience of the "beyond that is within." Its method is willed introversion, one of the classic implements of creative genius in any line of endeavor. Its intent is to drive the psychic energy of the self to its deepest part to activate the last continent of the true self