Yoga Quotes
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Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
Marianne Faithfull
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I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
Bikram Choudhury
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Yoga is an inner experience - a workIN within a workOUT.
A. G. Mohan
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Without knowing your Spirit you cannot know God.
Nirmala Srivastava
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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.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
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Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.
Sadie Calvano
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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.
Adina Porter
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My system works, as long as people let me do my job my way. It is not just the sequence, it is how you do it: the timing, the mirrors, the temperature, the carpet. But if people only do it 99% right, it is 100% wrong. When someone tries to mess with it, the people won't get the yoga benefits.
Bikram Choudhury
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Do your practice and all is coming.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.
Lisa Edelstein
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
Christy Turlington
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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.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Lisa Marie Presley
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I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.
Jason O'Mara
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I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.
Claudia Schiffer
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I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!
Chris Martin Coldplay
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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
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Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga
K. Pattabhi Jois
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I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.
Jill Clayburgh