Asana Quotes - Page 3

• I don't define myself by my body's ability to execute gorgeous asana anymore. I'm all about taking care of my temple and understanding that its requirements change with age and time.

  Kathryn Budig

  Understanding, Age, Body

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• Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.

  Sharon Gannon

  Karma, Healing, Mean

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• Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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• Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Light, Brain, Done

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.39, Rodale

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• In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Philosophy, Yoga, Exercise

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Natural, States

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• The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Bird, Soul

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• Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Kings, Reason, Hard

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• We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Art, Fun, Cancer

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• When I first discovered it it was so weird because I was doing all these positions, they're called Asanas, and I was thinking 'But I used to do this when I was a kid. I used to do shoulder stands and upside down positions.' So I think I used to do it as a child subconsciously, but not knowing what it actually was.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I studied Sanskrit for many years, and I've got all the coursework for my Ph.D. And a lot of what's going on in American Yoga is just made-up stuff. Smart people, even good people, Western therapists, Yoga therapists and other things, Western healthcare practitioners who love Asana and say, "Let's make up yoga therapy."

  Gary Kraftsow

  Smart, Yoga, Years

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• I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?

  Angel Grant

  Yoga, Class, Serenity

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• When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Mean, Simple, Bed

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.

  Tejomayananda

  Karma, Achievement, Mind

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• Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

  Kathryn Budig

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Living My Life

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

  James Fox

  Self, Practice, Trying

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• You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Joseph Pilates

  Yoga, Spine, Young

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• Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Bob Harper

  Success, Yoga, Youth

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