Today I am sharing a collection of some of my favorite yoga quotes. I hope these words bring you peace and inspiration in your daily life. There is so much love and motivation in the yoga community. It was hard to narrow down the list. Enjoy these “70 Inspiring Yoga Quotes.”
- “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
- “Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they’re meant to be.”
–B.K.S Iyengar - Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled.
-Kareem Abdul Jabbar - “Balance is not something that shows up one day and is suddenly here to stay; it’s the result of creating moments of mindfulness and gratitude throughout our day. That’s why it’s called a practice—it never ends.”
-Rachel Brathen
- 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 - “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.”
-Patanjali - “A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.”
-T. Guillemet - “Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”
-Amit Ray
- True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is–including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.”
-Craig Hamilton - “Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.”
-Amit Ray - “Balance comes from slowing down, from taking deep breaths, from understanding your body and what it needs. It comes from accepting who you are and loving yourself every step of the way.”
-Rachel Brathen - Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted — in body, mind, and heart — and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow — or we begin to flow more in our lives.
-Cybele Tomlinson - 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 - The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
-B.K.S Iyengar
- Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
-Sharon Gannon - “Yoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”
-Amit Ray
- “You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
Do not look at others’ bodies with envy or with superiority.
All people are born with different constitutions.
Never compare with others.
Each one’s capacities are a function of his or her internal strength.
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”
-B.K.S. Iyengar - Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.”
-Kevin Trudeau
- “Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”
-Amit Ray - “The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.”
-Rachel Brathen - “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”
-The Bhagavad Gita
- 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 - “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 - “I was looking for someone to inspire me, motivate me, support me, keep me focused… Someone who would love me, cherish me, make me happy, and I realized all along that I was looking for myself.”
-Unknown - “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 a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.”
-B.K.S lyengar - The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being’s three components: body, mind, and spirit.
-Stella Weller - “Although yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but simply on the individual. Yoga has become important in the lives of many contemporary Westerners, sometimes as a way of improving health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development.”
-Tara Fraser - These days, my practice is teaching me to embrace imperfection: to have compassion for all the ways things haven’t turned out as I planned, in my body and in my life – for the ways things keep falling apart, and failing, and breaking down. It’s less about fixing things, and more about learning to be present for exactly what is.
-Anne Cushman - “Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”
-Jason Crandell
- “We are all in charge of our own happiness. Life does not happen to us, it happens for us!”
-Rachel Brathen - “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.”
-Upanishads - “Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.”
-Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois - “Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.”
-Bob Harper
- “Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. Energy within and energy without.”
-Ymber Delecto - “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.”
-Rumi - “When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath”
-Hatha Yoga Pradipika - “Yoga is a dance between control and surrender — between pushing and letting go — and when to push and to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your well-being.”
-Joel Kramer - “Yoga is not about tightening your ass. It’s about getting your head out of it.”
-Eric Paskel - “Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists.”
-Unknown - “The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.”
-Rodney Yee
- “Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down.”
-Jigar Gor - “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.”
-Mariel Hemingway - “The pose begins when you want to get out of it.”
-Baron Baptiste - “Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.”
-Baxter Bell - “Balance is key. In everything you do. Dance all night long and practice yoga the next day. Drink wine but don’t forget your green juice. Eat chocolate when your heart wants it and kale salad when your body needs it. Wear high heels on Saturday and walk barefoot on Sunday. Go shopping at the mall and then sit down and meditate in your bedroom. Live high and low. Move and stay still. Embrace all sides of who you are and live your authentic truth! Be brave and bold and spontaneous and loud and let that complement your abilities to find silence and patience and modesty and peace. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don’t let anybody tell you how to live according to theirs.”
-Rachel Brathen
- “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
-B.K.S Iyengar - “The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.”
-Jason Crandell
- “Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they’re meant to be.”
-Anon - “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 - “Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.”
-Jim Rohn
- “All kidding aside, if everyone did yoga, we would have world peace.”
-Rory Freedman - “The future depends on what we do in the present.”
-Mahatma Gandhi - “Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours in the first place is what causes us to miss out on the beauty of the miracle that is the now. All of this is yours, yet none of it is. How could it be? Look around you. Everything is fleeting.To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go…it’s the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime.”
-Rachel Brathen
- “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 is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted — in body, mind, and heart — and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow — or we begin to flow more in our lives.”
-Cybele Tomlinson - “You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.”
-Wayne Dyer - “The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.”
-Liza Ciano - “The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.”
-B.K.S Iyengar - “Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.”
-Erich Schiffmann
- “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”
-Unknown - “Balance comes from slowing down, from taking deep breaths, from understanding your body and what it needs. It comes from accepting who you are and loving yourself every step of the way.”
-Rachel Brathen - “The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what’s been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga – the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body – you initiate a process that turns the fight or flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms.”
-Richard Faulds - “Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside of you.”
-Rumi - “Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
-B.K.S Iyengar
- “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
-Zen Shin - “Doing anything with attention to how you feel is doing yoga.”
-Jean Couch - “Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”
-B.K.S Iyengar - “Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”
-Budda - “Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.”
-Sri Sri Shankar
I hope you enjoyed this collection of beautiful and inspiring yoga quotes! If you did check out my other quote collections. Mothers Day is coming up and I have a great collection of motherhood quotes to help celebrate! Thanks for stopping by! =)
Much Love,
Lacey
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