Yoga is the Hindu practice of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India.Yoga is basically a form of exercise that people take up so as to stay fit and healthy. Yoga is a form of meditation too. Yoga helps you staying physically as well as mentally fit. Yoga can be practiced in the presence of a yoga instructor. Yoga helps to transform you into a fit and calm person who is an asset to any society that he is a part of.
Yoga also helps you to have glowing skin and provides you that “feel-good” factor which many other exercise forms don’t. Yoga can be practiced to cut down some flab and have a proportionate body. Power yoga is basically used for this purpose.
Yoga exercises make you quite flexible too. In the words of Mariel Hemingway, “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.”
Here is a collection of yoga quotes…..
” 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 is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.”
Patanjali
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
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
Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit. It is a moment by moment and thought by thought practical guide for living.
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
“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
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
Sharon Gannon
“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
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
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
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 you.
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 whom 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
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 whom 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 prevent 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 grows 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.
Unknown
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Unknown
Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.
Unknown
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