Yoga Poses Quotes

...it's most important to accept that your yoga poses may not look like everyone else's. That's okay. Just adapt the poses to your current state of being. ~ Jessamyn Stanley

Lately my thing is inventing new yoga poses. The Onion is one. You make yourself very round, then peel yourself, limb by limb. ~ Rachel Khong

Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving. ~ Maryrose Wood

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

(Sophie did a few yoga poses to stretch until she saw Tedros gawking and decided yoga was best done in private.) It ~ Soman Chainani

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses. ~ Mary Elizabeth Ellis

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

Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensations. But our amygdala in the brain is carrying the "fight or flight response"; it has forgotten the art of releasing the tensions. As human beings, when we are aware about the sensations, we can release that by aware, slow movements. If you do not give movements to the body parts, energy will be stuck and blood circulation will be disturbed. Gradually, that creates chronic physical and mental health problems. ~ Amit Ray

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

My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. I've never done yoga before. ~ Bregje Heinen

Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice! ~ Swami Vivekananda

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way. ~ Sting

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. ~ Frederick Lenz

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

Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit. ~ Alan Finger

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

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing. ~ Aprilynne Pike

We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves. ~ Frederick Lenz

One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also. ~ John Novak

If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain. ~ Frederick Lenz

Yoga makes me feel really sexy. ~ Alicia Silverstone

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature. ~ Debasish Mridha

Asking for outside help, or even if it comes unasked, to allow outside help, needs a certain gracefulness and humility. Otherwise, you cannot allow outside help. Lots of people cannot receive something gracefully. Always, the social ethics have taught you that giving is important, taking is not important. Yes, taking is not important, taking is ugly, but receiving is very important. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces. ~ Alan Finger

Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses. ~ Wilson Bryan Key

Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment. ~ Cyndi Lee

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely. ~ John McAfee

Yoga in America is a joke. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there. ~ Rumi

However beautifully we carry out an asana, however flexible our body may be, if we do not achieve the integration of body, breath, and mind we cannot claim that what we are doing is yoga. ~ T. K. V. Desikachar

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people. ~ Alexander Theroux

But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, that she might make it less. What restrained her was, no doubt, idleness and fear, and a sense of shame also. She thought she had repulsed him too much, that the time was past, that all was lost. Then pride, the joy of being able to say to herself 'I am virtuous', and to look at herself in the glass taking resigned poses, consoled her a little for the sacrifice she believed she was making. ~ Gustave Flaubert

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism. ~ Sam Harris

We are adults undertaking a team-building activity in a professional capacity, so naturally we spend several minutes horsing around, striking poses with our paintball guns and making sound effects. Joshua and Sergeant Paintball watch us like orderlies at a mental facility. ~ Sally Thorne

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLE
BUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL
YOUR GLOW ~ Qwana M. Reynolds-Frasier

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved. ~ Ramana Maharshi

A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you aspire to achieve goals in the material world you cannot fulfill yourself spiritually, or vice versa. However, since all of us, at some level, long for fulfillment in all aspects of our life, it is essential to understand that these two aims are not mutually exclusive. ~ Rod Stryker

that the yoga guy? Yoga Matt? ~ Tracy Brogan

While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking. ~ Frederick Lenz

All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions. ~ Frederick Lenz

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving. ~ Frederick Lenz