Top 70 Yoga Mind Body Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.
Rodney Yee
#3. Yoga and Vipassana are the two most time tested ancient techniques for keeping the body, mind and spirit in harmony and in sync. There is no contradiction between yoga and vipassana. They are complementary to each other.
Amit Ray
#4. Meditation is yoga for the mind, just as there is yoga of the body.
Poonam Dhandhania
#5. If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
Jaggi Vasudev
#6. When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.
Baba Hari Dass
#7. 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
#8. Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.
Deepak Chopra
#9. 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
#10. Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.
Colleen Saidman
#11. The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#12. Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
Geeta Iyengar
#13. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.
Elvis Presley
#14. Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.
Dharma Mittra
#15. 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
#16. I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.
Taylor Schilling
#17. Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#18. Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.
LeBron James
#19. Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda.
Sebastian Pole
#20. Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
Ramana Maharshi
#21. The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds' commands.
H.E. Davey
#22. Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#23. With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
Jaggi Vasudev
#24. If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.
Jaggi Vasudev
#25. Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
Amit Ray
#26. Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Christy Turlington
#27. Yoga is a journey of the soul through the body that creates a harmony among nature, mind, and body.
Debasish Mridha
#28. The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.
Rodney Yee
#29. As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.
Jennifer Nettles
#30. If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#31. When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.
Jaggi Vasudev
#32. Matter is a medium of communication between minds, and everything that exists in the mind can also exist in the body. Furthermore, the body - being the expression of a mental state is developed as a manifestation of the mind.
Ashish Dalela
#33. Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.
Madonna Ciccone
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced.
Miranda Kerr
#37. First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#39. Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. Iyengar
#40. The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.
Bikram Choudhury
#41. Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
Melanie Klein
#42. For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
Naomi Judd
#43. I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
Donna Karan
#44. The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.
Frederick Lenz
#45. 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
#47. Yoga is the best tool to help you change your mind about your body
Jamie Martin
#48. Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#49. Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.
Rodney Yee
#50. 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
#51. Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.
Bikram Choudhury
#53. Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#54. Consider your will and your body as two dancers, moving in total unison. Too many beginning and even experienced yoga students make their yoga into a wrestling match - the mind contending with the body, forcing it into postures that the body is resisting. Yoga is a dance, not a wrestling match.
Bernie Clark
#55. Coming to Haramara is like coming home. My body returns to the earth, my mind mesmerized by the rhythms of the ocean and my spirit flies in this magical place. Yoga is a way of life and Haramara Retreat is where we can re-educate ourselves to live in balance.
Rodney Yee
#56. In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#57. I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.
Jaime Murray
#58. Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#59. Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#60. Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.
Amit Ray
#61. In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.
Geeta Iyengar
#62. Yoga, in all its forms, provides a means for the practitioner to master the body and the mind so that the soul (or true self) can emerge to share in the experience of life.
Lei Camille
#63. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.
M.E. Dahkid
#64. If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga.
Jaggi Vasudev
#65. Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.
Amit Ray
#66. Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#67. Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.
Deepak Chopra
#68. Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student..
Elizabeth Gilbert
#69. Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#70. 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
