Top 36 Quotes About Asanas
#1. If you perform asanas regularly, you will feel more flexible physically and emotionally. Flexibility is the essential difference between the vitality of youth and the lassitude of old age. Here is a yogic expression that we find inspiring: "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality.
Deepak Chopra
#2. The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
Sivananda
#3. We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only.
Geeta Iyengar
#4. Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
Krishna Das
#6. The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#7. Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#8. In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.
Jayne Middlemiss
#9. When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.
Jayne Middlemiss
#10. Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a mystical language.
Sharon Gannon
#11. The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#12. The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#13. 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
#14. Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
B.K.S. Iyengar
#15. It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#16. Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#17. The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.
Donna Farhi
#19. Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#20. Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#21. Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#23. John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.
Teresa Heinz
#25. I think I'm allowed to compliment my wife." "Only if you behave." "So is me telling you that your ass in that dress makes my cock hard as a rock behaving?
Aubrey Irons
#26. We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
Saint Augustine
#27. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's
Aldous Huxley
#28. We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
William Irwin Thompson
#29. In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything
Jane Hirshfield
#30. I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
Danica McKellar
#31. When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
Gelett Burgess
#32. Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.
Robin Sharma
#33. I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
Brett Ratner
#34. Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She
shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?
Maggie Shayne
#35. I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.
Mariska Hargitay
#36. Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes ... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
John Constable
