Yoga inspiration pictures and quotes
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you're either positively or negatively charged. So if you're liking how you're looking, you're gonna be more positively charged.
-Jonathan Van Ness
For nearly every challenging moment in life, there's a yoga pose to help you feel better.
-Mandy Ingber
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
-Indra Devi
In yoga, the key to staying youthful is a flexible spine.
-Mandy Ingber
At the end of my daily yoga routine, lying on the floor in Corpse Pose, I feel as though I am floating in a sea of pure love.
-Mandy Ingber
Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.
-Kyle Shewfelt
Yoga disciplines both the mind and the souls and not just your body. It helps me in having a constant positive outlook in life. I would love my family to adopt this form of fitness as well.
-Jacqueline Fernandez
The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
-Ramana Maharshi
Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.
– Linda Sparrowe
Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.
– Rolf Gates
Yoga is a light which once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame.
– B.K.S. Iyengar
”Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”–The Bhagavad Gita
”Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.” –Desikashar
”Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.” — Rolf Gates
”Yoga begins with listening. When we listen, we are giving space to what is.” — Richard Freeman
”Yoga does not transform the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.” — B.K.S. Iyengar
”Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.” – Linda Sparrowe
”The yoga pose you avoid the most you need the most.” — Anonymous
“Yoga is not for the flexible. It’s for the willing.” — Anonymous
”Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” –Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
”Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” –Jason Crandell
”Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists.” – Anonymous
”To perform every action artfully is yoga.” – Swami Kripalu
“The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.” – Yogi Bhajan
”Through sustained focus and meditation on our patterns, habits, and conditioning, we gain knowledge and understanding of our past and how we can change the patterns that aren’t serving us to live more freely and fully.” – Yoga Sutra
”The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.”― T.K.V. Desikachar
“Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.”
Debasish Mridha
“Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.”
Amit Ray
“[It] 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.”
Ravi Ravindra
“Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.”
Debasish Mridha
“Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.”
Amit Ray
“To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value.”
Prem Prakash
“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”
Amit Ray
“For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.”
T. Guillemets
“That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.”
Allan Lokos
“Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport”
Matt Haig
“You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga.”
Debasish Mridha
“Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won’t feel like your first.”
Gina Greenlee
“Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.”
Ravi Ravindra
“The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.”
Amit Ray
“Why [do]they always look so serious in Yoga? [When] you make [a]serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with the mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world.”
Debasish Mridha
Abhijit Naskar
“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.”
Amit Ray
“Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.”
Osho
“Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.”
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.”
Ymber Delecto
“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
“Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.”
Baxter Bell
Rory Freedman
“When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.”
Petri Räisänen
“Yoga is really trying to liberate us from shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing – I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.”
Rodney Yee
“Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool.”
Victoria Moran
“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
“Yoga not only allows you to learn to control your breathing, but it ultimately enhances your abilities to harmonize your thoughts and enhances your inner beauty.”
Debasish Mridha
“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
“Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to the uneducated, medicine to the sick, and trees and cleanliness to the environment.”
Amit Ray
Mark Stephens
“Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.”
B.K.S. Iyengar
“Yoga is a journey of the soul through the body that creates a harmony among nature, mind, and body.”
Debasish Mridha
“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.”
Kripalvanandji
“The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.”
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“Keep flowing even its good or bad. Stilness is ultimate result of flow, path of yoga is to keep flowing.”
Yogi Vini
“The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough.”
Amy Weintraub
“With yoga, you go back to your source to bloom again with joy and inner peace.”
Debasish Mridha
“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 is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”
Amit Ray
-Christy Turlington
My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
-Natalie Dormer
My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental relaxation, whereas the Pilates allow me to work my inner core through stretching and keeping my muscles toned.
-Erin Heatherton
Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance.
-Mandy Ingber
The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.
-Bikram Choudhury
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
-Ziggy Marley
I can't take a traditional yoga class or anything. I'll just lay down and take a nap on the mat.
-Jessica St. Clair
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
-Sting
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
-Patanjali
”Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”― B.K.S. Iyengar
”Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.” – Amit Ray
”Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.”- Bob Harper
”Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.”- Debasish Mridha
”Yoga is invigoration in relaxation, freedom in routine, confidence through self-control, energy within and energy without.” – Ymber Delecto
”Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.” – Mariel Hemingway
”Yoga is the science of reality.”- Sushil Singh
“Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.”
-Debasish Mridha
“Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.”
Bob Harper
Amit Ray
“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.”
Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.”
Patañjali
“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.”
T. Guillemets
“Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception.”
Debasish Mridha
“Yoga is the unifying art of transforming dharma into action, be it through inspired thought, properly nurturing our children, a painting, a kindness or an act of peace that forever moves humanity forward.”
Micheline Berry
“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”
Amit Ray
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”
Patañjali
“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.”
Donna Farhi
Besides the peace of mind, yoga has great effects on your body. You will not believe how flexible and fit your body is going to be once you start practicing yoga.
Even though the physical practices of yoga are only one element of the umbrella term yoga, they are by far the most popular. In fact, most people associate the wide variety of different athletic exercises with the term ‘yoga’. However, yoga – in its entirety – is a deeply spiritual discipline that combines physical, mental, philosophical, and spiritual elements. Something most also do not know is that the literal translation of ‘yoga’ is ‘union with the divine’. Therefore, yoga goes much deeper than can be seen with a short glimpse. Yoga is something that needs to be experienced.
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