Quotes About Doing Yoga

#1. The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

Rodney Yee

#2. I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

#3. Once a week, I spend a day luxuriating in bed. I like staying in my house, pottering around, and maybe cooking or just laying around reading. I love doing yoga and transcendental meditation.

Heather Graham

#4. I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

Taylor Schilling

#5. I tried doing yoga, but I have dislocating shoulders, one of which has been pinned, so I find things such as yoga and pilates, where you have to stretch quite high up with your arms and things, quite difficult.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#6. I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

Cara Delevingne

#7. The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

Kate Beckinsale

#8. I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

Gloria Reuben

#9. The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

Mark Stephens

#10. We cannot expect that millions are practicing real yoga just because millions of people claim to be doing yoga all over the globe. What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.

Prashant Iyengar

#11. I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.

Sarah Chalke

#12. I'm really interested in finding good tips to stay in shape, and I love being in the gym, and I love doing yoga.

Charlotte McKinney

#13. For some people, staying grounded means doing yoga. For others, it's spending time with family. Social media, too, can be a lifesaver.

Ryan Holmes

#14. When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.

Dani Shapiro

#15. Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.

Jennifer Aniston

#16. I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.

Dave Davies

#17. No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

Crystal Renn

#18. I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.

Karisma Kapoor

#19. I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

Jill Clayburgh

#20. helped along by doing yoga together after a huge workout

Kaira Rouda

#21. The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

Cyndi Lee

#22. There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

Rahul Gandhi

#23. I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.

Jeremy Piven

#24. I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

Ali MacGraw

#25. A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

Ashley Judd

#26. Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

B.K.S. Iyengar

#27. Doing yoga on the road was really a life-saver, and a life-changer ... .It kept me focused and gave me more control over the way I divided my energy. I realize that if [a place of goodness] is the basis for all decision-making, then the road is clear.

Sheryl Crow

#28. I am doing everything to be fit - like not eating oily food, doing yoga, gymming and consulting my doc.

Suresh Raina

#29. When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.

Kim Raver

#30. It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.

Kaley Cuoco

#31. I fell in love with doing yoga.

Ione Skye

#32. Especially in New York, where things are quite chaotic, I work out to stay grounded. Having that time, whether I'm running or doing yoga I get to challenge myself by creating mini goals and have little personal victories.

Erin Heatherton

#33. Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Rod Stryker

#34. I like doing yoga. I do yoga three times a week and I do Pilates twice.

Heather Graham

#35. Yoga is the most boring exercise. It's for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bikram, where they heat up the room to mimic India's climate, is especially stupid. People in India are not skinny because they're doing yoga in 105-degree rooms; they're skinny because there's no food.

Noureen DeWulf

#36. I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

Britney Spears

#37. Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen.

Osho

#38. I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#39. If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.

Neil Peart

#40. I've been doing yoga since 1980 or '81, and I've kind of developed my own routine. It's challenging and thorough, but I'm not holy about it. Sometimes I'll watch a tape of Jon Stewart's show while exercising.

April Gornik

#41. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

Anne D. LeClaire

#42. Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .

Stephen King

#43. It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

Bryan Cranston

#44. I think during the day, when I was doing the Masterchef experience, everything I'd learnt in yoga, the breathing techniques, etc, would really help and it would calm me down because it was so stressful.

Jayne Middlemiss

#45. I think the first thing we need to talk about is you not running around in tight T-shirts and yoga pants." "Fine. I'll stop doing that as soon as you shave." Jack ran his hand along his jaw and grinned. "You like the scruff, huh?" Did she ever.

Julie James

#46. I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

Elizabeth Lesser

#47. God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place.

Nirmala Srivastava

#48. I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

Christy Turlington

#49. I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Dani Shapiro

#50. Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?
-Simon, pg.340-

Cassandra Clare

#51. I went to high school and university in Vancouver. Vancouver is really into yoga, so I have been doing it for years. The one thing that I know it helped me with for sure is changing the way that I think about and experience physical pain.

Vanya Asher

#52. Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

Frederick Lenz

#53. I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

Eve Ensler

#54. I've been doing a lot of yoga to help with my running, recovery, and mental clarity. It works great for me.

Angie Martinez

#55. Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

Frederick Lenz

#56. Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's not about comparing yourself or judging yourself, it's about being in that moment and doing your best.

Jayne Middlemiss

#57. I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

Francesca Annis

#58. I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me.

Julianne Moore

#59. Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#60. Where is truth? Is there truth in what I am doing now?

Frederick Lenz

#61. I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it.

Nina Dobrev

#62. I love eating healthy and doing the yoga thing, because I think I'm going to live to a thousand doing so. And that's because I don't want to leave here so soon. I want to stick around as long as I can, but I know that's not going to be the case. We're all going.

Jason Mraz

#63. Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#64. The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.

Ellie Goulding

#65. I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

Bat For Lashes

#66. 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

#67. I did easy yoga and I found it a bit boring. I'm now doing a more difficult one now and I'm enjoying it a bit more. I occasionally still work out with my trainer Tracy Anderson.

Lara Stone

#68. I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.

Nico Tortorella

#69. The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

Frederick Lenz

#70. I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

Serena Williams

#71. Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

Samantha Stosur

#72. The Love factor makes anything hallowed, and an action is no exception. Doing things with love makes the work sacred.

Banani Ray

#73. Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.

Colleen Saidman

#74. We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#75. I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

Mariel Hemingway

#76. I get bored doing the same activity over and over. In any one week, I could do a Pilates class, a yoga class, go to a gym, like a pump class, or do weights and then go for a run. Each day, I like to change it up a bit.

Jessica McNamee

#77. Absolutely, everyone and anyone can get involved in yoga. I've seen really small kids doing it in my yoga class, right up to elderly people doing it.

Jayne Middlemiss

#78. Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!

Frederick Lenz

#79. I am pretty relentless about exercise. I love working out and doing cardiovascular workouts. I'm now doing the Whole Life Challenge to discover the unhealthy patterns in my diet and to adjust them to more reasonable levels. And more yoga!

Tim Matheson

#80. It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.

Tara Stiles

#81. Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

Jason Mraz

#82. When you grasp the yogic principles and philosophies, you can apply them to any activity you are doing. Then every thing you do is spiritually enhancing your life. And this leads to the ultimate experience where everything you do is YOGA. It is all Union, unifying you with the Supreme Source.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#83. Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#84. Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

Frederick Lenz

#85. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Lewis Carroll

#86. The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

Frederick Lenz

#87. Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Frederick Lenz

#88. When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.

Dharma Mittra

#89. I go through phases as far as working out goes. I'll do yoga for a few months or then work out at the gym, and then if I'm not doing either, there are things that I usually try and do something active, whether it's trying to jump in the ocean with the surfboard or go hiking.

Sarah Roemer

#90. If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.

Dharma Mittra