Best 1455 quotes in «yoga quotes» category

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don't want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That's very important to me.

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me.

I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J--- is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.

I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

I went to high school and university in Vancouver. Vancouver is really into yoga, so I have been doing it for years. The one thing that I know it helped me with for sure is changing the way that I think about and experience physical pain.

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.

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.

I would like to love more deeply and purely, more completely, and if it is your will, I will do that, if it is not, I won't and I'll accept that. I 'll just love you as best I can and love everyone as best I can.

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

Jnana yoga is practical.

Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

Kirshna's message is eternal - fight!

Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.

Lack of judgement doesn't mean that you don't see what is or is not. It simply means that you realize that everyone is constantly changing - everyone is made up of conscioussness.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

Laughter drives shouting away.

Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants.

Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.

Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

Love all your different sides, only then will immortality come to you.

Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

Love comes from ourselves, not from someone else.

Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

Love knits families together, friends, lovers, societies, nations and perhaps oneday a world.

Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

...love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.

Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.

Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.