Yoga Practices Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In yoga . . . many may take one path as a key in order to experience self-realisation while others take another path, but I say that there is absolutely no difference between the various practices of yoga." - B. K. S. Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, p. 15

Georg Feuerstein

#3. One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#4. The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

Sharon Gannon

#5. So don't fall in love, there's just too much to lose; if you're given the chance then I'm begging you choose to walk away, walk away, don't let it get you. I can't bear to see the same thing happen to you.

Mayday Parade

#6. 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

#7. We were not only poor and hungry. We had to feed unwanted insects with our blood!

Elena Acevedo

#8. When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

Mary Baker Eddy

#9. Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

Satish Kumar

#10. It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.

Candice Glover

#11. More you like, more you post... more people like you!

Deyth Banger

#12. You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

Rob Bell

#13. Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief.

Amit Ray

#14. I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

Amanda Schull

#15. No one touched the pumpkin foot, except me. I cut a huge slice and dug in. To my surprise, it tasted musty and earthy, just how I imagined the flavor of the color brown would be...

Richard Blanco

#16. If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

Philip Yancey

#17. When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

Karan Bajaj

#18. 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

#19. Yoga has so many different practices. I don't really enjoy Ashtanga. I don't really enjoy Bikram because I don't like knowing what's coming.

Bethenny Frankel

#20. No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

Sonia Friedman

#21. Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

Sharon Gannon

#22. Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

John Dewey

#23. 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

#24. One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham.
- Temeraire

Naomi Novik