Quotes About Yoga

Daily practice of yoga, which often correlates with improved health, decreases the total amount of beta activity/outer directed attention/sympathetic nervous system function and conversely increases alpha or theta wave activity/inner directed attention/parasympathetic nervous system functions.

Pike closed his eyes, and filled his lungs, then pushed with his diaphragm. He breathed deep again. Pranayamic breathing from the hatha yoga. Pike lost himself in a cool forest glade, dappled by sunlight filtered through lime green leaves. When he breathed, he smelled moss and sumac. His pulse slowed. He grew calm. He centered. Pike

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing -- I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

Yoga is the methodology with which to unveil the miracle that exists right in front of our faces and inside ourselves.

Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi.

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi. The

They moved with a minimum of effort and noise, and knew how to sit, walk and run in the most agile and efficient manner. Varied and constant use of their bodies made them as fit as marathon runners. They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi.

If you perform asanas regularly, you will feel more flexible physically and emotionally. Flexibility is the essential difference between the vitality of youth and the lassitude of old age. Here is a yogic expression that we find inspiring: "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality.

Today, I am pleased to share the best knowledge and philosophy for life, from Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna. It is as follows: "The man who sees me in everything and everything within me will not be lost to me, nor will I ever be lost to him. He who is rooted in oneness realizes that I am in every being; wherever he goes, he remains in me. When he sees all being as equal in suffering or in joy because they are like himself, that man has grown perfect in yoga."

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

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 is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.