YOGA QUOTES III
quotations about yoga
When I was a child, my father would sometimes practice yoga several times a day, and we kids would be in the living room watching Happy Days! So I don't think we have to be so rigid.
MANDY INGBER
"Kicking Asana and Taking Names: A Q&A with Yoga Expert Mandy Ingber", Gaiam
Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.
H. E. DAVEY
Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
AMIT RAY
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Lifestyle
I think that's why I got to therapy and yoga at an early age. I realized that I'm accountable. I'm not here for very long on this planet and I want to do this life well, as consciously and mindfully as I can.
SEANE CORN
"Seane Corn: Try Loving Now", Yoga Teacher Magazine
I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam--you're a guru, ready for your groupies.
EDWARD VILGA
Downward Dog
The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.
RODNEY YEE
"A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee", Origin: The Conscious Culture Magazine
After--or even during--yoga, I'd sometimes end up in tears. And it wasn't because I was in physical pain; it was because I was having emotional breakthroughs.
FRANCESCA MAXIME
"How 4 Months of Yoga Boosted My Confidence and Helped Me Lose 35 Pounds", Elite Daily, March 15, 2017
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.
DONNA FARHI
Bringing Yoga to Life
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
CARL JUNG
Collected Works
Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.
B. K. S. IYENGAR
"Yoga: A Path to Wholeness", BeliefNet
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
Introduction to Yoga
Yoga has also been the gateway drug into meditation. Sitting still is hard for me, however, as an extremely busy person, with a lot of responsibility, meditation has brought me freedom and peace, and much needed time for reflection that is hard to find otherwise in my schedule. My time on the mat is precious. It is easy to give this time away, because I have too many emails to respond to, phone calls to make or business to take care of. But I find the days, I take this time to practice yoga, I take this time for myself, I am able to be there more fully for others. In addition I am stronger, more centered, more confident and more balanced both physically and mentally.
REBECCA HALLS
"Interview with Yoga Teacher Rebecca Halls - Prague Spirit Festival", Raw 4 Happiness
If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it.
JENNIFER ANISTON
"Jennifer Aniston Shares Her Health and Beauty Secrets", Self Magazine, Mar. 18, 2014
You're likely aware of all of the benefits of yoga. These days practicing your poses has been reported to help you with everything short of cleaning your house. Now, new research from Boston University suggests that twice weekly yoga can help treat depression. However, it's not just the poses that can lift you out of the bell jar. The study reports that it's actually the breathing aspect of yoga that delivers the most healing benefits.
BRANDI NEAL
"Yoga Can Help Treat Depression, Study Finds, So Get Ready To Get Your Namaste On", Bustle, March 11, 2017
If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.
BABA HARI DASS
attributed, Sun, Moon & Earth: The Sacred Relationship of Yoga & Ayurveda
People often come to yoga for the physical benefits alone, and that's great. Any reason to come to yoga is a valid one. But you can't help but heal other places along the way.
HEATHER RITENOUR-SAMPSON
"The Chat: Yoga: It's 90% mental, and the other half physical", Post Bulletin, February 4, 2016
The other thing about yoga is, it's all about truth.
FRANCESCA MAXIME
"How 4 Months of Yoga Boosted My Confidence and Helped Me Lose 35 Pounds", Elite Daily, March 15, 2017
Striving for the "result" of being spiritual or having a perfect physical shape is a destination, and yoga is what happens along that path.
MANDY INGBER
"Kicking Asana and Taking Names: A Q&A with Yoga Expert Mandy Ingber", Gaiam
Yoga means union, in all its significance and dimensions.
INDRA DEVI
attributed, The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom
Candlelit or dark yoga is gaining in popularity in London (and where the capital goes the rest of the UK will follow) as part of a wider trend for exercising in unusual environments. 'Boutique' brands such as Barry's Bootcamp, 1Rebel and Ride Republic all run circuit and spinning classes in studios lit by little more than neon bulbs and accompanied by pounding soundtracks or even live music -- and they're wildly popular, regularly selling out within minutes. Workouts in traditional gym spaces have never looked more boring.
TONI JONES
"Dark yoga: a backlash to the egotistical poseurs of Instagram?", The Telegraph, January 30, 2016