Top 100 Yoga Is Quotes
#1. Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.
Donna Farhi
#2. Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.
Rajashree Choudhury
#3. Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.
David F. Swensen
#6. Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method formaking one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#7. Karma Yoga is mindful service to the humanity with love and respect.
Amit Ray
#9. If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#11. 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
#12. Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#13. Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.
David Frawley
#14. 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
#16. If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#17. Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.
Miranda Kerr
#18. Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.
Amit Ray
#19. Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Yoga is an art and science of living.
Indra Devi
#21. Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Indra Devi
#22. Sahaja Yoga is nothing but love, love, love. How much you love others is the main point.
Nirmala Srivastava
#23. 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
#24. I might be a pretty earthy, crunchy girl, yes. There might be some crystals and Buddhas in my house. I may meditate and eat all green and compost ... Yoga is a very regular part of my life.
Alysia Reiner
#26. 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
#27. Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.
Alison Sweeney
#28. Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
Patanjali
#29. Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
harmonyof the body, senses, mind
and intellect, reason, consciousness
and self. When all these are integrated
that is true yoga.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#30. Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal ... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#31. 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
#32. Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
Geeta Iyengar
#33. 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
#34. Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.
Woody Harrelson
#35. Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.
Frederick Lenz
#36. Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
Amit Ray
#37. Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#38. Most people think yoga is simply a form of exercise, but as you know, it's much deeper than that. It's about mindfulness, about focus. It helps us see things as they truly are.
Tracy Weber
#39. Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Yoga is something that once you start practicing it you learn a lot of breathing skills and I think that would really be incredibly useful on a day-to-day basis. It can help you with all the emotional stress.
Jayne Middlemiss
#41. Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.
Mark Whitwell
#42. I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into ... if you heat yourself up.
Tricia Helfer
#43. Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.
Alan Finger
#44. Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#45. I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.
Cyndi Lee
#46. Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport
Matt Haig
#47. 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
#48. The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.
Raphael
#49. Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.
Rodney Yee
#50. Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures.
Mark Whitwell
#51. 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
#52. The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#53. 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
#54. Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
Jaggi Vasudev
#55. I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.
James Fox
#56. Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
Bob Harper
#57. Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon and as such it is very difficult to define.
Georg Feuerstein
#58. 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
#59. Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.
Amit Ray
#60. For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.
Kim Raver
#61. Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.
Miranda Kerr
#62. Yoga is not just a workout, it is a natural way of enhancing flexibility, calmness, clarity, and youthfulness.
Debasish Mridha
#63. The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.
Aleister Crowley
#64. Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.
Krishnananda Saraswati
#65. The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#66. The spread of yoga is the symbol of a changing world. It represents a world where knowledge flows, without restriction of country, creed or class. It represents a world where people come together across boundaries, for causes and concerns that unite the planet.
Narendra Modi
#68. Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
Jaggi Vasudev
#69. Mysticism - Magic and Yoga - is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.
Israel Regardie
#70. Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#71. 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
#72. A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful..
Goswami Kriyananda
#73. Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.
Sharon Gannon
#74. 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
#75. Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine.
Sri Chinmoy
#76. Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
Amit Ray
#77. Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#78. Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
B.K.S. Iyengar
#80. I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me.
Jayne Middlemiss
#81. What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#82. Yoga is a journey of the soul through the body that creates a harmony among nature, mind, and body.
Debasish Mridha
#83. I don't really begrudge anyone who uses substances, I just feel that yoga is a more sustainable way to find peace because it's from the inside out.
MC Yogi
#84. When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.
Paul Harvey
#85. Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
Amit Ray
#86. 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
#87. To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations - these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities. Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.
Sadhguru
#89. Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.
Osho
#90. Yoga is the study of the human body. It is the surge for the human soul.
Rodney Yee
#91. You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.
Rajneesh
#92. My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.
Donna Karan
#93. Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#94. Yoga is a dance within ... and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that's when you dance on the outside.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
#96. Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.
Bikram Choudhury
#97. Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.
Paul Harvey
#98. Yoga is the art and science of living.
Indra Devi
#99. Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power ...
Nirmala Srivastava
#100. Getting some time away to be active, work out, do yoga is definitely a necessity in life. These activities help me relieve stress and center my mind when I'm playing the waiting game after an audition.
Allen Evangelista
