Quotes About Teaching Yoga

#1. 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

#2. My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: "If you're on time, you're late!" That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won't settle until halfway through the class.

Gudjon Bergmann

#3. May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW.

Robert M. Pirsig

#4. Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

Irina Tweedie

#5. The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

Sharon Gannon

#6. It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

Nirmala Srivastava

#7. I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

Leon Bridges

#8. I take my fearless approach into my teaching by helping my students to realize their potential through yoga. I have a gift for making difficult poses accessible and reminding people that postures, and anything in life, are only as hard as you make them out to be.

Kathryn Budig

#9. Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

Alice Walker

#11. I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.

Andrew Mason

#12. The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life.

Rodney Yee

#13. We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Winston S. Churchill

#14. I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me ... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.

Irina Tweedie

#15. It was the evangelicals who led the fight against slavery, child labor, poor factory conditions, and the abuse of the poor and the insane. Much of what we value in modern social legislation, and perhaps take for granted, grew out of the ministry of Wesley and Whitefield and their successors.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#16. He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

#17. At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

Stendhal

#18. All she wanted was five minutes to herself, to hear herself think without someone demanding explanations or that she fix something she couldn't fix.

Starla Huchton

#19. Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.

Noelle Scaggs

#20. Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.

Gudjon Bergmann

#21. Anyen Rinpoche is a compassionate embodiment of wisdom. The skillful teachings in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath will be a source of peace and happiness for many in these troubled times, for which I am very grateful.

Garchen Rinpoche

#22. My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.

David F. Swensen

#23. My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know?

Kay Robertson