Hatha Yoga Quotes

• Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment.

  Cyndi Lee

  Powerful, Yoga, Self

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• Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Arrows, Soul

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• Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.35, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Business, Yoga, Fall

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

  Bob Harper

  Success, Yoga, Asana

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• Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

  Patanjali

  Success, Yoga, Practice

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• 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

  Attitude, Yoga, Skills

  B.K.S Iyengar (2000). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-1”, p.76, Allied Publishers

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• The pose begins when you want to leave it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Want, Yoga Practice

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• The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Yoga, Practice, Faces

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Synthesis of Yoga: Art of living”, p.55, editionNEXT.com

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• 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

  Success, Yoga, Exercise

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• Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Success, God, Yoga

  "Stress Out: Show Stress Who's the Boss!". Book by Sumner M. Davenport (p.9), November 11, 2009.

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• It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Inward, Frozen

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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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• 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.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Yoga, Asana, Spine

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• 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

  Yoga, Compassion, Meditation

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

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Asana, Natural

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• 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.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Success, Yoga, Meditation

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom". Book edited by Kelsie Besaw, p. 22, 2014.

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• Do your practice and all is coming.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Success, Yoga, Practice

  John Scott, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (2000). “Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga”, Harmony Books

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• 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

  Success, Attitude, Yoga

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Yoga, Fall

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.77, New World Library

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• 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

  Success, Basketball, Sports

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• When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  "Healthiest You Ever: 365 Ways to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Boost Your BMI, Lower Your Blood Pressure, Increase Your Stamina, Improve Your Cholesterol Levels, and Energize from Head to Toe!" by Meera Lester, p. 291, December 18, 2011.

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• 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

  Success, Yoga, Eye

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• 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

  Success, Mother, Teacher

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