Top 29 Quotes About Yoga Teachers
#1. Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
Romola Garai
#2. Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#3. Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.
Gudjon Bergmann
#4. She tried to do what the Equinox yoga instructor said to do and thank each thought for coming then let it float away, but the thoughts were not floating away and she couldn't force them away, not even here, where she was supposed to be able to escape.
Stephanie Clifford
#5. Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.
Amit Ray
#6. Total compassion leads to total forgiveness. You can't force yourself to forgive anyone. Forgiveness doesn't belong to the mind. It is a feeling of the heart.
Deepak Chopra
#7. I love everything about what we [Suicide Silence] do, and our life style. It's an insane way to live when you spend most of your time inside a plane, tour bus, or in a back stage. All over this massive place we call earth.
Mitch Lucker
#8. There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes.
Max Wertheimer
#9. 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
#10. Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
#11. If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#12. Clear, direct and vibrant instructions will inject energy into the class, and create a feeling of safety for the students.
Gudjon Bergmann
#14. When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
Idries Shah
#15. As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.
Andrew Solomon
#16. Self-confidence is built from the inside out and has little or nothing to do with outside circumstances.
Gudjon Bergmann
#17. It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
Hans Christian Andersen
#18. 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
#19. It is very good to see thousands of new teachers, so that with our thoughts, we can gradually change the world -send peace to the world. That's the best contribution to world peace-first the students should find their peace, and then they share with the other students.
Dharma Mittra
#20. Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
Laura Innes
#21. Yoga teachers must be willing to step down from this imagined pedestal and utter the words "I don't know" on a regular basis.
Gudjon Bergmann
#22. It's a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.
Gudjon Bergmann
#23. The yogic scriptures paint a picture of perfection, and perfection can be your aim, but I can tell you sad stories about myself and others who have entered into a state of premature holiness with unpleasant consequences.
Gudjon Bergmann
#24. Speaking softly and slowly, and breathing through the vocal chords in a low voice, has become the mythical ideal voice for a yoga teacher.
Gudjon Bergmann
#25. Love," he whispered in Italian, "is a single soul inhabiting two bodies".
Elizabeth Hunter
#26. Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.
Mae West
#27. There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.
Robin S. Sharma
#28. In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#29. I have seen yoga teachers, almost in frenzy, looking for something new; new postures, breathing exercises, styles of yoga, teachers and so on. But what are they really searching for? Escape from boredom.
Gudjon Bergmann
