Choudhury Yoga Quotes

#1. Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

Bikram Choudhury

#2. You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.

Bikram Choudhury

#3. So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

Bikram Choudhury

#4. Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.

Rajashree Choudhury

#5. Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

Bikram Choudhury

#6. Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

Bikram Choudhury

#7. People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.

Rajashree Choudhury

#8. Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.

Rajashree Choudhury

#9. It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.

Bikram Choudhury

#10. Cheer up, things will get worse.

Bikram Choudhury

#11. Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

Bikram Choudhury

#12. In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

Bikram Choudhury

#13. Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

Bikram Choudhury

#14. Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

Bikram Choudhury

#15. Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

Bikram Choudhury

#16. Yoga in America is a joke.

Bikram Choudhury

#17. It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga ... It's just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

Bikram Choudhury

#18. Let no one steal your peace.

Bikram Choudhury

#19. What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

Rajashree Choudhury

#20. The right way is the hard way.

Bikram Choudhury

#21. Give me 30 days, I'll change your body. Give me 60 days , I'll change your life

Bikram Choudhury

#22. Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.

Bikram Choudhury

#23. If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.

Bikram Choudhury

#24. You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.

Bikram Choudhury

#25. Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health'

Bikram Choudhury

#26. The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

Bikram Choudhury

#27. You're never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.

Bikram Choudhury

#28. When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

Bikram Choudhury

#29. One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.

Bikram Choudhury

#30. Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.

Bikram Choudhury

#31. I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

Bikram Choudhury

#32. No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.

Bikram Choudhury

#33. I am a champion. My mom made sure that I did yoga every day. She dragged me because that was something she was doing for herself. She would have a great time with her friends. All the mothers would sit together and the kids all did yoga.

Rajashree Choudhury

#34. My system works, as long as people let me do my job my way. It is not just the sequence, it is how you do it: the timing, the mirrors, the temperature, the carpet. But if people only do it 99% right, it is 100% wrong. When someone tries to mess with it, the people won't get the yoga benefits.

Bikram Choudhury

#35. Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.

Rajashree Choudhury

#36. Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

Bikram Choudhury

#37. Yoga only works one way.

Bikram Choudhury