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| Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar |
| The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough. ~ Amy Weintraub |
| Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible. ~ Bob Harper |
| 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 |
| 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. ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois |
| By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. ~ Phillip Moffitt |
| Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois |
| Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~ Carol Krucoff |
| For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself. ~ Mary Glover, "Health Profile: Yoga leaves aches and pains behind," |
| A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~ Terri Guillemets |
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| I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. ~ Betsy Cañas Garmon |
| The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~ Liza Ciano |
| The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. ~ Carl Jung |
| Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. ~ Author Unknown |
| Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more. ~ Patricia Walden |
| When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence." ~ Author Unknown |
| Yoga is bodily gospel. ~ Reaven Fields |
| If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| 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 means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. 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, |
| Don’t just do something – sit there! ~ Author Unknown |
| I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I’m looking out of my third eye and everything that I’m supposed to be doing. It’s amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama’s got the magic of Clorox 2." ~ Ellen DeGeneres |
| Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~ Svatmarama, |
| Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. ~ Patanjali |
| Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. ~ Jason Crandell, quoted in |
| Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. ~ Ymber Delecto |
| Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~ Baxter Bell, quoted in "Worry Thwarts," |
| Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. ~ Melanie Haiken, about yoga and anxiety, "Worry Thwarts," |
| Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You’re on your own side, and you are your own strength. ~ Terri Guillemets |