What Is Yoga Quotes

#1. 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

#2. What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.

Nirmala Srivastava

#3. I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.

Evgeny Morozov

#4. One of the things I love about yoga is that it brings you into the present moment. You aren't worried about what will happen tomorrow and you aren't thinking about what happened yesterday. It's about opening your heart and living from your heart.

Michael Franti

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. You are not to be guided by your intellect, but by your wisdom, as you are Sahaja Yogis. So, you have a very good instrument of feeling it. Through your vibrations you can make out what is good and what is bad.

Nirmala Srivastava

#8. 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

#9. Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall into alignment.

MC Yogi

#10. There is no difference in our souls ... That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves
our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#11. If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.

Frederick Lenz

#12. What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.

Frederick Lenz

#13. To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.

Jaggi Vasudev

#14. 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

#15. Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

Cyndi Lee

#16. Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.

Nirmala Srivastava

#17. In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#18. So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#19. Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

Adam Levine

#20. You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.

Frederick Lenz

#21. 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

#22. Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love.

Nirmala Srivastava

#23. The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.

Alan Finger

#25. What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head.

Rodney Yee

#26. We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

John McAfee

#27. What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

Rajashree Choudhury

#28. Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.

Michael Meade

#29. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Eckhart Tolle

#30. The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of yoga is a longing. Only when your longing is cranked up to peak intensity, knowing becomes a possibility.

Jaggi Vasudev

#31. Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.

Alan Finger

#32. You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.

Jane Fonda

#33. Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

Frederick Lenz

#34. What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

Jaggi Vasudev

#35. It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.

Frederick Lenz

#36. What is there? No one can say -because there is no one there to say.

Frederick Lenz

#37. What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Nirmala Srivastava

#38. What is the greatest thing in us is our Spirit, is the Spirit that we have and we should know that we should be proud of it that we have got the Spirit within us. And if you become proud, then you will not do nonsensical things.

Nirmala Srivastava

#39. Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#40. More yoga in the world is what we need.

Diane Lane

#41. Yoga is a big misnomer in the west, people don't know what this yoga is. Yoga means union with the divine. When you become one with the divine, the divine starts flowing through you and you become part and parcel of the whole.

Nirmala Srivastava

#42. When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. [ ... ] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what conceals it. So, too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work is to chisel away at everything that is not essence, not Self.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#43. Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

Rod Stryker

#44. So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.

Allan Lokos

#45. Lack of judgement doesn't mean that you don't see what is or is not. It simply means that you realize that everyone is constantly changing - everyone is made up of conscioussness.

Frederick Lenz

#46. 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

#47. The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change."

Frederick Lenz

#48. Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.

Brad Willis

#49. Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

H.E. Davey

#50. Now we're going to transition into the pigeon pose," the female instructor said serenely. "I don't know what that is!" Lacey yelled at the TV. "Why don't you ever explain it to us?" With that, yoga was over.

Elle Kennedy

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

Frederick Lenz

#52. You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.

Kevin Bacon

#53. In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.

Frederick Lenz

#54. Because all actions and expressions
stem from the mind, it is vital to know the
mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what
about psychosomatic wellness?

H.E. Davey

#55. If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

Jaggi Vasudev

#56. Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

Malti Bhojwani

#57. You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Sharon Gannon

#58. Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

Jaggi Vasudev

#59. Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

Jaggi Vasudev

#60. What is most important is your Spirit. Why identify with anything else but your own spirit? You cannot get money out of it. No. The joy of Spirit is the reward of Spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#61. Everyone is growing and developing. Everyone has to go through a trial and eror process of finding what is right.

Frederick Lenz

#62. In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

Nirmala Srivastava

#63. I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

Ricky Williams

#64. 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

#65. Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#66. For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Mariel Hemingway

#67. Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#68. When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#69. The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are.

Frederick Lenz

#70. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

Ramana Maharshi

#71. 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

#72. If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

Frederick Lenz

#73. You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.

Fred Alan Wolf

#74. Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

Frederick Lenz

#75. This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

Frederick Lenz

#76. The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.

Nirmala Srivastava

#77. It is key to remember we can maintain a genuine enthusiasm and love for what IS, in the PRESENT moment, enjoy it with gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#78. I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.

Patricia Velasquez

#79. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

Wayne Dyer

#80. I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.

Frederick Lenz

#81. The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

Erich Schiffmann

#82. I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it.

Andrew Whitworth

#83. The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and not asking for anything ? Loving for loves sake, that's what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love.

Nirmala Srivastava

#84. There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#85. You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?

Nirmala Srivastava

#86. What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.

Frederick Lenz

#87. Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?

Frederick Lenz

#88. The only way to experience true wellbeing is to turn inward. This is what yoga means - not up, not out, but in. The only way out is in.

Sadghuru

#89. In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can have more of what you want in real terms; and ultimately - this may be the most important of it all - less fear.

Rod Stryker

#90. When you know yourself you are surprised that what is the greatest thing for you is to love and to be loved.

Nirmala Srivastava

#91. What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.

Frederick Lenz

#92. Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.

Rajashree Choudhury

#93. You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it.

Colin Farrell

#94. What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Osho

#95. Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

Confucius

#96. You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#97. The minivan is the yoga pants of vehicles. But you know what? I love my yoga pants.

Jen Mann

#98. The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

Jaggi Vasudev

#99. 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

#100. What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.

Grace Gealey