Yoga Quotes - Page 17

• My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.

  David F. Swensen

  Attitude, Teaching, Practice

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• I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.

  David F. Swensen

  Teacher, Practice, Inspire

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• My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

  Michael Franti

  Stress, Practice, Worry

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• It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

  Michael Franti

  Inspire, Music And Love

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• I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

  Adrian Grenier

  Nice, Iron, Balance

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• The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

  Kandyse McClure

  Morning, Practice, Perfect

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.

  Christy Turlington

  Love Is, Connections, Unions

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• When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one.

  James Fox

  Philosophy, Real, Moving

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• I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.

  James Fox

  Practice, Mind, Foundation

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• Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.

  James Fox

  Practice, Class, Feet

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• I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

  Amanda Beard

  Meditation, Mind, Training

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

  Amanda Beard

  Sports, Athlete, Meditation

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Heart, Recovery

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I run about four days per week and do some sort of hike or yoga/stretching on the other three. Kind of self-propelling my body and muscles forward in my own controlled chaos helps me find the ground a little bit easier on the daily.

  Madi Diaz

  Running, Self, Body

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

  Bryan Kest

  Practice, Enlightenment, Dimensions

  "My Affair with/Addiction to Yoga" by Marjorie Hope Rothstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

  Bryan Kest

  Mean, Goal, Silent

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• This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released from the base of your spine going up through your crown chakra so you become a human lightening bolt, not a halo floating on top of your head. Simply heightened states of awareness, enlightenment, becoming more and more aware which gives more and more insight, which brings wisdom and gives choice. With that wisdom and choice, we become the masters of our destiny and at peace in our life.

  Bryan Kest

  Destiny, Light, Practice

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• My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep.

  Leilani Bishop

  Sleep, Exercise, Practice

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• According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

  Rod Stryker

  Decay, Disease, Causes

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• In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can have more of what you want in real terms; and ultimately - this may be the most important of it all - less fear.

  Rod Stryker

  Real, Joy, Important

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• I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga!

  Mike Ness

  Years, Trying, President

  "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.

  Emily Saliers

  Spiritual, Practice, Giving

  "Emily Saliers: Growing as an artist, helping the environment, and doing things that scare her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

  Grace Gealey

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Blessing

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Teaching, Winter, People

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• Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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