Yoga Quotes
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Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!
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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.
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When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
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The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.
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Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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My mala beads are very precious to me. A yoga teacher and friend named Leslie made them for me with love and intention. They are very grounding, and I love them.
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I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to.
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Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
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I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.
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When people are getting on me for being at a Ranger game at 7 o'clock at night, they don't see what I've done between yoga, Pilates, workout, thrown, ran, done all my work by 5 o'clock, ate, and then I went to the game. Nobody is seeing that. Nobody is commenting on that.
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I got introduced to yoga in drama school. It's now a mainstay in my life, ever since I got instructor certification at a teacher-training intensive. I even occasionally guide an intimate class of friends and family, but mostly the training was to serve and deepen my own practice.
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Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
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When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.
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I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
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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.
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As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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I used to be really into Bikram yoga.
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My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.
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I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.
