Yoga Is Not About Touching Your Toes Quote Quotes

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

It is easy to make the mistake of thinking yoga is about touching your toes when in fact yoga is about learning to touch others. Likewise, many people think the purpose of meditation is a perfectly still mind, when in fact, it is a more compassionate heart. Spiritual practice is measured by one's ability to ease the suffering of the world one breath at a time. ~ Darren Main

yoga is the science of reality ~ Sushil Singh

Yoga means connection – connection with the Supreme Self ~ Amit Ray

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. ~ Patanjali

Yoga is the ultimate fusion of science and spirituality. ~ Amit Ray

On the occasion of yoga day, I want to offer you the simplest form of yoga: Namaskar - Yoga for all. ~ Sadghuru

Yoga is the space where flower blossoms. ~ Amit Ray

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life. ~ Amit Ray

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

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

Enlightenment is blessing the world with one hand and touching the earth with the other hand. ~ Amit Ray

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. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion. ~ Amit Ray

When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill. ~ Nhat Hanh

Viatcheslav Goloubov is a Yoga Teacher/lecturer in Vancouver who provides the help of yin yoga, AcroYoga, and Martial arts. ~ Viatcheslavgoloubov

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. ~ Douglas Groothuis

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul. ~ Amit Ray

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

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. ~ Frederick Lenz

There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it. ~ Jose Saramago

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. ~ Donna Karan

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

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

Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world. ~ Debasish Mridha

[T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds. ~ Julie Lessman

I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet. ~ Minnie Driver

It seems so outrageous to think, as I physically hold my first book (of this series) in my hands, that I am touching my thoughts. It is equally amazing to realize that I am touching my feelings. I am touching my questions. I am touching my hopes and dreams. I am touching my perspectives, and I am touching the (sometimes intentional, sometimes unintentional) "mistakes". I am also touching my happiness.

I am touching my inner World. I am having a physical (outer) experience with my inner World. ~ Cheri Bauer

Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on. ~ Bo Burnham

The Love factor makes anything hallowed, and an action is no exception. Doing things with love makes the work sacred. ~ Banani Ray

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

You basically get paid according to the amount of time you invest. ~ Yohann Dafeu

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. ~ Mariel Hemingway

The fakirs always throng the sea-shore
To find meaning in the chaos
And then they too become melancholy
Feeling nothing but their naked toes. ~ Avijeet Das

Sahaja Yoga is nothing but love, love, love. How much you love others is the main point. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

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

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

[I]t 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 ... (20) ~ Ravi Ravindra

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

The yogic scriptures paint a picture of perfection, and perfection can be your aim, but I can tell you sad stories about myself and others who have entered into a state of premature holiness with unpleasant consequences. ~ Gudjon Bergmann

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

An uncontrolled mind is the source of sorrow; when it is thoroughly understood, the sorrow vanishes like mist at sunrise.- Yoga Vasistha ~ Yoga Vashistha

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There's something so sweet about being on your yoga mat, whether that be at Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra, or in my living room. ~ Stephanie Ellis

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. ~ Frederick Lenz

Yoga is the way of our approach to the goal, that is, a way of getting connected to our objective. Etymologically, the word Yoga in Sanskrit means to add, to be united. In other words, it is the means to join or be united with our goal. ~ Nihar Satpathy

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

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

The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes. ~ Troy Polamalu

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

When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi

Yoga always made me feel really good about myself. ~ Scarlett Pomers

Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES! ~ Jeff Smith

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight ~ Laurie Nadel

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes. ~ Nelly

Those who stand on their toes are not steady. ~ Laozi

A gently touching hand is an expression of trust. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

He is our man's-man of literature. ~ Andrew Barger

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

There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh. ~ Courtney M. Privett

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

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. ~ Edward Vilga

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

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life. ~ Tim Minchin

When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way. ~ Gillian Anderson

Karma Yoga is mindful service to the humanity with love and respect. ~ Amit Ray

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

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

A beautiful woman's ugliness is often hidden in her heart … or by her shoes. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work. ~ Sinclair Lewis

Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception. ~ Debasish Mridha

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

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. ~ David F. Swensen

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

Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to myself that when I am a big girl I will see from this high.
Today I did the same thing, but the view from my toes was the same from flat feet.
I'm a big girl now. ~ Audrey Regan

I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga! ~ Mike Ness

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. ~ Jason Mraz

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems. ~ Paul Harvey

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

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

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes. ~ Pablo Casals

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes. ~ Tim McCarver

I think of you, therefore I exist. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

I always tell people, I can't teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can't teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga. ~ Beryl Bender Birch

Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony. ~ Debasish Mridha

We gotta see-saw until we unthaw those Popsicle toes. ~ Michael Franks

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else. ~ Jill Clayburgh

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

I have seen yoga teachers, almost in frenzy, looking for something new; new postures, breathing exercises, styles of yoga, teachers and so on. But what are they really searching for? Escape from boredom. ~ Gudjon Bergmann