Top 100 Quotes About Yoga Practice
#1. The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.
Kandyse McClure
#2. The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend - it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.
Rolf Gates
#3. When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.
MC Yogi
#4. Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.
Sharon Gannon
#5. For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.
MC Yogi
#6. Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.
Bryan Kest
#7. Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.
Brenda Strong
#8. Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)
Ravi Ravindra
#9. Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.
Geeta Iyengar
#10. Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others
Donna Farhi
#11. My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"
Faith Hunter
#12. Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.
Donna Farhi
#13. In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.
Brenda Strong
#14. My bodysuit is how I start everyday. I wear a bodysuit everyday of my life. It's how I start my yoga practice. It's underneath it all. For me, what goes under the clothes is as important as what goes on top of the clothes. It's a layering aspect, so it's inside.
Donna Karan
#15. 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
#16. My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep.
Leilani Bishop
#17. Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.
Rod Stryker
#18. My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.
Michael Franti
#19. It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#20. Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#21. I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room ... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!
Sigrid Agren
#23. Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.
James Fox
#24. See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.
Dharma Mittra
#25. 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
#26. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
Sri Aurobindo
#27. 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
#28. I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.
Grace Gealey
#29. yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce
Mark Stephens
#30. The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#31. Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.
Kathryn Budig
#32. Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#33. I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced.
Miranda Kerr
#34. This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#36. The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.
Rod Stryker
#37. People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.
Marianne Williamson
#38. I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
Billy Childish
#39. By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#40. Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
Beryl Bender Birch
#41. No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
Jack Kornfield
#43. Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.
Gudjon Bergmann
#44. I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
Donna Karan
#45. Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.
Swami Vivekananda
#46. Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.
Sharon Gannon
#47. Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.
Donna Farhi
#48. I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.
Giancarlo Esposito
#50. Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness; you are not likely to feel deprived or 'less than.' People steal because they feel deprived. They try to make up for their deficits by depriving others.
Sharon Gannon
#51. It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Paul McCartney
#52. I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me.
Nina Dobrev
#53. Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. Iyengar
#54. Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#55. When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves
Bikram Choudhury
#56. Falling out of balance doesn't matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find our way back to center, every day, again and again - that is the practice of yoga ... it's about trusting that you will find your way.
Cyndi Lee
#57. Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.
Deepak Chopra
#58. I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Pico Iyer
#59. I love Bikram Yoga. I tend to move and think at a fast pace, and the heat forces me to slow down and just focus on my breath. I'm also a fan of Kundalini yoga. It's still a new practice for me, but I've found it infinitely helpful in getting me present.
Allison McAtee
#60. As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#61. Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
Rumi
#63. Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
Christy Turlington
#64. Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.
Christy Turlington
#65. You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.
Sivananda
#68. When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#69. I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip.
Brenda Strong
#70. To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.
Frederick Lenz
#72. That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.
Allan Lokos
#73. Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
Adam Levine
#74. The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.
Mark Stephens
#75. Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#76. Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?
Richard Rosen
#77. Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.
Deepak Chopra
#78. Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take.
Evita Ochel
#79. Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.
Amit Ray
#81. 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
#82. I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.
Miranda Kerr
#83. Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.
Tracy McMillan
#84. I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.
David F. Swensen
#86. It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.
Patanjali
#87. Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.
Frederick Lenz
#89. Quite the mind and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya
#90. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
Ray Dalio
#91. Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.
Amit Ray
#92. The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.
Swami Vivekananda
#93. Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
Wayne Dyer
#94. I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.
Frederick Lenz
#95. F the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a thought or theory could well be disastrous in practice.
Nirmala Srivastava
#96. Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#97. Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.
Christy Turlington
#98. Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.
Patanjali
#99. Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#100. What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.
Sri Chinmoy
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