A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.
T. Guillemets
In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not.
Yogi Berra
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.
Rumi
When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Mr. Yoga
Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.
David Williams
The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.
Rodney Yee
REAL Peace is always unshakable... Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss.
Yogi Bhajan
Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.
Baxter Bell
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
anon
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
B.K.S. 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
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
B.K.S. Iyengar
The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough.
Amy Weintraub
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
Bob Harper
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha quotes
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.
Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
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
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.
Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day.
Carol Krucoff
For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself.
Mary Glover
The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.
Liza Ciano
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
Unknown
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
When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence.
Unknown
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.
T. Guillemets
Don't just do something - sit there!
Unknown
I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.
Ellen DeGeneres
Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.
Svatmarama
Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.
Patanjali
Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.
Jason Crandell
Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.
Ymber Delecto
Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released.
The Quote Garden
Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.
Baxter Bell
Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight or flight mode.
Melanie Haiken
Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.
April Vallei
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.
The Quote Garden
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
The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what's been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga - the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body - you initiate a process that turns the fight or flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms.
Richard Faulds
Tree pose grows confidence.
The Quote Garden
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.
Krishnamacharya
For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.
T. Guillemets
Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down.
The Quote Garden
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.
David Williams
Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S Iyengar
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
The yoga sutras of Patanjali
When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.
Desikashar
Do your practice and all is coming.
Sri K Patthabi Jois
This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, becomes yoga comes and go.
Katha Upanishad
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.
Rodney Yee
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.
Osho
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.
Annie Wood Besant
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