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Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Ymber Delecto



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



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



The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted. - Rabindranath Tagore



This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. - Bhagavad Gita



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



Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. - Jason Crandell



In Karma yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear of birth and death. - Bhagavad Gita



Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science. - Annie Wood Besant



Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted -- in body, mind, and heart -- and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow -- or we begin to flow more in our lives. - Cybele Tomlinson







What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant. - Donna Farhi



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



This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake. - Bhagavad Gita



The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being's three components: body, mind, and spirit. - Stella Weller



Karma yoga is a supreme secret indeed. - Bhagavad Gita



In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes. - Donna Farhi



If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. - Jack Kornfield



Through practice, I've come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I'm suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of the problem. - Stephen Cope



These days, my practice is teaching me to embrace imperfection: to have compassion for all the ways things haven't turned out as I planned, in my body and in my life - for the ways things keep falling apart, and failing, and breaking down. It's less about fixing things, and more about learning to be present for exactly what is. - Anne Cushman



When I started doing asana, the yoga postures, I had a very strong feeling of many unnecessary things dropping away - especially tension and inadequacy. - Patricia Sullivan



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



Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings. - Rumi



Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny. - Upanishads



Beyond meditation there is the experience of now. - Ryan Parenti



Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. - Swami Sivananda

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper



Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. - James Allen



Plant the seed of meditation and reap the fruit of peace of mind. - Author Unknown



Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity. - Author Unknown



Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave. - Author Unknown



When calm your mind and your senses, you become conscious of your always present inner self. - Author Unknown



Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. - Bhagavad Gita



Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. - Sri Chinmoy



Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. - Author Unknown



To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. - Author Unknown



You may think that only you are a prisoner, but other people are also prisoners. You are in a small prison, but others are in the big prison outside. When will they be released? Think that you are a yogi and that you are pursuing your sadhana in this particular place and at this particular moment. Immediately you will experience great joy. If you change your understanding, you will be free in a minute. - Baba Muktananda



Our raga/dveshas make us prisoners to the mental lenses through which we view the world. No matter what actually appears before us, our vision is always skewed, and as a result we suffer. - Leonard Perlmutter



The perennial wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita can teach us how to transform our character, conduct and consciousness to meet the challenges of everyday life. - Leonard Perlmutter



Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit. It is a moment by moment and thought by thought practical guide for living. - Leonard Perlmutter



Enormous possibilities for health and creativity are held captive by your likes and dislikes. Inspecting your desires and attachments to food and making choices intuitively with discrimination will make your spiritual practice and every other relationship more rewarding. - Leonard Perlmutter

Yoga Science teaches us to 'include all and exclude none.' If the outer guru, in the form of a person or experience, reflects the Truth and light of the inner guru, the advice is to be heeded and served in thought, word and deed. If a suggestion from the outer guru is not in harmony with the inner guru as reflected by the purified discrimination of buddhi, the advice is to be honored and lovingly rejected with gratitude---for your teacher has just taught you what not to do. - Leonard Perlmutter



Meditation is not what you think it is. It's a method of accessing unerring wisdom from the superconscious mind so you can experience a happy, healthy and creatively rewarding life. - Leonard Perlmutter



Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. - Swedish Proverb



A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.- Mariel Hemingway



Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. - Indra Devi



Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting



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



Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. - B.K.S. Iyengar



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



Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible. - Bob Harper



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



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



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. - K. Pattabhi Jois







I would like for people to realize that yoga is not about touching your toes. - Gary Kraftsow



I like the physical part, but I’m also drawn to the spiritual. For me, yoga is not just a workout—it’s about working on yourself. - Mary Glover, “Health Profile: Yoga leaves aches and pains behind,” Arizona Republic, 2004 April 6



In our uniquely human capacity of connect movement with breath and spiritual meaning, yoga is born. - Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa



A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. - Terri Guillemets



Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. - Carl Jung



Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. - Author 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.” - Author Unknown



While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves. - Valerie Jeremijenko



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



Without proper breathing, the yoga postures are nothing more than calisthenics. - Rachel Schaeffer



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



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



Yoga is not about self-improvement, it’s about self-acceptance. - Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa



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 accepts. Yoga gives. - Terri Guillemets



Asanas attune the body to meditation, just as a guitar is tuned before a performance. - Author Unknown



Yoga is the study of balance, and balance is the aim of all living creatures: it is our home. - Rolf Gates



Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. - Jason Crandell



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



In truth, yoga doesn't "take time" — it gives time. - Ganga White, Yoga Beyond Belief: Insights to Awaken and Deepen Your Practice



In this fast-paced, constantly moving world, practicing yoga allows me time to stop and just be aware of where I am and how I feel. It is a time to be one with my body, and let go of all the distractions and worries of the outside world. Holding an asana like Warrior One, with my legs stretched in a lunge and and my arms reaching up, I feel grounded and free at the same time. I can sense my body acting as a conduit between the earth and the sky, and feel my breath flowing with this sacred energy. - Jonathan Urla



Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. - Melanie Haiken



The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. - Sri Aurobindo



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 ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. - Raphael, Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcendent



Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. - Erich Schiffmann







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



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



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



For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. - 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



It doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go, what matters is who you are when you get there. - Max Strom



Yoga is not about touching your toes, it is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor



Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. - Carol Krucoff



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



You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga, you just have to be willing to shake the dust off and see what happens. - David Good



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



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



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



All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you. - Terri Guillemets



Tree pose grows confidence. It roots me to this world. - Terri Guillemets







Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you’re forced down. - Terri Guillemets



Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. - Terri Guillemets



We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely. - John McAfee



The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. - Donna Farhi



Hatha yoga is spirituality of the body; it is the most perfect union of corporeal and incorporeal. - Terri Guillemets



Yoga takes us to the present moment, the only place where life exists. - Ellen Brenneman



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



It was obvious to me that for optimal fitness, yoga and Pilates belonged together.... Yogilates was born from my desire to create an accessible and effective regimen that contained the best of both techniques and would be ideal for everyone. - Jonathan Urla



What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates. - Nisargadatta Maharaj, "Conversations with Nisargadatta Maharaj: Conversation #70," Yoga Journal, December 1981



Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Terri Guillemets



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



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



My yoga instructor pissed me off, so I offered him my special "moon salutation." Then I slammed my chakra shut right in his face. - Terri Guillemets



The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. - Terri Guillemets