Yoga Quotes
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Yoga Quotes and Quotations
A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~Terri Guillemets
All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you. ~Terri Guillemets
Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~Svatmarama
Asanas attune the body to meditation, just as a guitar is tuned before a performance. ~Author Unknown
Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. ~David Williams
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. ~Author Unknown
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. ~Phillip Moffitt
Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. ~Terri Guillemets
Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. ~Melanie Haiken
Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. ~Terri Guillemets
Yoga Quotes and Quotations
For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~Terri Guillemets
Hatha is the sanctuary for those suffering every type of pain. It is the foundation for those practicing every type of Yoga. ~Svatmarama
I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon
I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace. ~Terri Guillemets
I would like for people to realize that yoga is not about touching your toes. ~Gary Kraftsow
If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~Terri Guillemets
In our uniquely human capacity of connect movement with breath and spiritual meaning, yoga is born. ~Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success. ~Terri Guillemets
Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet.... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth.... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~Carol Krucoff
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One succeeds in all Yogas through energetic practice—even if one is young, old, very old, sick, or weak. ~Svatmarama
Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. ~Erich Schiffmann
Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~Carol Krucoff
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. ~Rodney Yee
The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called "the still point of the turning world." ~Barbara Stoler Miller
The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. ~Donna Farhi
The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano
The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga — hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine. ~Tara Fraser
The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. ~Terri Guillemets
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. ~Sri Aurobindo
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The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. ~Raphael
The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~Amy Weintraub
The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. ~Richard Hittleman
Tree pose grows confidence. ~Terri Guillemets
Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more. ~Patricia Walden
Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength. ~Terri Guillemets
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. ~Rodney Yee
When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence." ~Author Unknown
When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga. ~Geeta Iyengar
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
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While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves. ~Valerie Jeremijenko
Without proper breathing, the yoga postures are nothing more than calisthenics. ~Rachel Schaeffer
Yoga accepts. Yoga gives. ~Terri Guillemets
Yoga doesn't take time, it gives time. ~Ganga White
Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~Baxter Bell
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. ~Carl Jung
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~K. Pattabhi Jois
Yoga is bodily gospel. ~Reaven Fields
Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. ~Bhagavad Gita
Yoga is essentially a practice for your soul, working through the medium of your body. ~Tara Fraser
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Yoga is not about self-improvement, it's about self-acceptance. ~Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~K. Pattabhi Jois
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. ~Bob Harper
Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. ~Jason Crandell
Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. ~Patañjali
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon
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