Frases de Yoga

I started doing yoga.

Yoga is a life-saver.

Jnana yoga is practical.

Yoga is a natural thing.

Yoga's an amazing release.

Yoga is a means and an end.

Yoga is mind wave quieting.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

I need yoga every single day.

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

I fell in love with doing yoga.

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

I do prenatal yoga and walk a lot.

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it.

Music and yoga have a great synergy.

The study of yoga makes me inspired.

Yoga is a gift that you give yourself.

Yoga is the art and science of living.

I would say, the new hipness is #yoga.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

Yoga probably makes me a better person.

I hate yoga pants anywhere but the gym.

I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

I think that yoga, it really is a process.

Yoga makes me feel like I can do anything.

A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

It is never too late in life to practice yoga

I enjoy yoga a lot, not even for the workout.

Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.

Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

The goal of every yoga is to lead a guided life.

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

Yoga calms me down. It gives me energy and focus.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.

I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

Yoga always made me feel really good about myself.

Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.

Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.

Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

I love yoga and I feel like yoga for me is incredible.

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus.

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

Yoga is an inner experience - a workIN within a workOUT.

I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses

Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better.

Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.

Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

All I want to do is yoga and hike, and smoke weed. It's funny.

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

I hate yoga so much. Like, if yoga was a person, I'd stab them.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

Yoga is about life, this means all of life, not just part of it.

Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul...

Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

Yoga is the best tool to help you change your mind about your body

Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.

I do yoga weekly. I don't know who I'd be without yoga and running.

I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

Because of old sports injuries, yoga has become a physical lifesaver.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.

Yoga is the study of the human body. It is the surge for the human soul.

Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.

Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.

I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

[Yoga] never calms me. Ever. But it certainly helps me prevent something.

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.

Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga

I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.

When it comes to knowing how to relax, cats are the original yoga experts.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. Ive never done yoga before.

Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. Id rather be outdoors having fun.

Practicing yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

Yoga changed my life. Have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.

Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.

If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.

With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

Yoga, unlike dance or mime, is not an expression of form for others to watch.

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

Was thinking of taking a yoga class, then realized I wasn't gay. Whew. Close one.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath.

I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.

That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance.

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

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

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important.

If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.

If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Yoga has helped me become more in tune and respectful of not just my body but my soul.

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.

I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

When mind controls man, it's ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it's...Yoga

As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.

The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon and as such it is very difficult to define.

Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt.

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.

I know everyone says they go to yoga, but I actually really go. I notice that helps me so much.

I lack routine with yoga, sleep, and food but do my best to keep consistency amongst the chaos.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.

Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.

The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.

Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

I obviously swear by yoga for staying mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually balanced.

The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.

We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it's incredibly grounding.

I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

I can do crunches all day long, but in yoga my core was challenged in a way that I never felt before.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic.

Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it's so simple. Lying there is meditative.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.

Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

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

Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

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

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

I've been doing a lot of yoga to help with my running, recovery, and mental clarity. It works great for me.

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.

The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.

In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants.

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

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

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.

I do a lot of yoga. There's more and more guys getting into yoga these days, and I find that helps me as well.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress

Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.

Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.

To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

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

I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.

My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

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

Yoga teaches you aim for the highest first, and the highest is always love. From there everything else will follow.

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

I try to work out more now. I have been really thinking about getting into yoga, though. I can use that, believe it.

The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

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

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.

I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

Yoga is the methodology with which to unveil the miracle that exists right in front of our faces and inside ourselves.

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.

The practice of yoga allows us to become more conscious of our own physical existence and how significant we really are.

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

You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.

We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.

My diet - I eat nutritionally-balanced meals. I work out. I do yoga. I love my yoga. I do boxing training because it's fun.

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.

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.

If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

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.

Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

During recording I was into yoga hard and I was very sober and clear minded. But when I went to mix I took a break from that.

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.

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..

Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

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.

In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.

I personally love working out, but I always try to switch it up. I do a few different things, like SoulCycle, SLT for Pilates, yoga.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

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

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.

Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

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.

Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?” -Simon, pg.340-

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.

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.

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.

Yog is not only about Rog Mukti but also Bhog Mukti. Yoga can be our cultural ambassador. We can reach out to the world through this medium.

In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

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.

I did quite a bit of running before, but it's getting really cold so I joined a gym. I do a bit of swimming and I'm starting to do yoga again.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

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.

Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do.

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.

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.

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

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.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.

I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

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.

Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me.

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.

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.

In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

Our feelings can be hurt, but you can take a yoga class, you can pray, you can play some basketball - you can figure out things for your hurt feelings.

I don't want to have strong arms, like you get from Pilates or yoga. But dancing arms become your best accessory. And it's great for your core muscles.

No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the meditation clears my mind and energizes me.

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

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.

We need to bring the spiritual dimension back into yoga and encourage students to look for teachings and practices that will take them to the next level.

I've worked many jobs throughout my life, which has ultimately enhanced my appreciation for the opportunity to teach yoga and share something so positive.

I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J--- is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.

I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

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.

Yoga is really big - I'm actually a certified teacher, although I've never taught classes at a studio. I really find myself drawn to more traditional styles.

Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?

The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

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.

I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

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.

Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.

Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.

Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow

Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.

I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.

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.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace

Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.

With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.

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.

As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

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.

I go to yoga classes as well as practicing myself. I'm always open to new experiences and when I'm in different cities shooting, I try some local classes sometimes.

Yoga should not be just an exercise, but a means to connect with the world and with nature. It should bring a change in our lifestyle and create awareness within us.

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam—you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.

On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.

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.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are.

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.

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.

I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I said, "Exactly!" I'd go nuts if I lived in the moment.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

I love to do yoga, even if it means getting up at 5:30 in the morning. It helps me breathe and stop all the chatter in my head. That can help you get through everything.

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

I try to do yoga. I really enjoy stretching and having a nice yoga class or taking a run on the beach. I'm not a big fan of the gym. I try to be out as much as possible.

When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

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.

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.

[On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.

I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.

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.

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga...

Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.

I don't practice yoga, but it's on my list of things to try again. I gave it a shot, but the class was too advanced for me, and I felt overwhelmed and a little embarrassed.

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.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

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.

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.

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.

The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins.

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

I did easy yoga and I found it a bit boring. I'm now doing a more difficult one now and I'm enjoying it a bit more. I occasionally still work out with my trainer Tracy Anderson.

Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.

My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep.

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.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.

The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.

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.

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.

I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.

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.

Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

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.

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

I'm a big guy so I have to keep my muscles loose. So I do a lot of stretching before the game. I'll do about 10-15 minutes of yoga just to loosen up my body, get warm and get ready to play.

The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"

A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

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.

Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.

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.

Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.

Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

Yoga is so much more about the instructor than it is about the practice itself. It's their point of view and the way they teach that makes the experience so special and opens things up for me.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

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.

Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me.

It is important to meet people where they are. It reminds me of yoga, to which people may flock for the physical benefits, often to find that the spiritual benefits match or even outweigh them.

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.

Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.