Yoga Quotes - Page 18

• I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Wine, Thinking, Practice

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

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• Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Mean, Practice, Effort

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• I always tell people, I can't teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can't teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  People, Instruction, Teach

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• The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even if it's just for an instant.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Oneness, Consciousness, Samadhi

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• I don't practice yoga, but it's on my list of things to try again. I gave it a shot, but the class was too advanced for me, and I felt overwhelmed and a little embarrassed.

  Mike Colter

  Practice, Class, Trying

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Because of old sports injuries, yoga has become a physical lifesaver.

  Erica Tazel

  Sports, Injury

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• I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

  Erin Richards

  Nice, Exercise, Healthy

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• My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

  Faith Hunter

  Spiritual, Practice, Honestly

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• The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life.

  Rodney Yee

  Real, Teaching, Helping Others

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.

  Rodney Yee

  Unions, Method, All Things

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• Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.

  Colleen Saidman

  Believe, Teaching, Imagine

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

  Colleen Saidman

  Order, Meditation, Missing

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.

  Lisa Rinna

  Class, Hours, Ifs

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

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• Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.

  Lisa Rinna

  Class, Two, Luxury

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

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• In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

  Brenda Strong

  Practice, Effort, Energy

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• Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

  Brenda Strong

  Dream, Motherhood, Practice

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• I try to work out more now. I have been really thinking about getting into yoga, though. I can use that, believe it.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Believe, Thinking, Work Out

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, September 9, 2014.

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• I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Giving, Want, Energy

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, September 9, 2014.

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• Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

  Deepak Chopra

  Practice, Community, Clubs

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• Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

  Deepak Chopra

  Years, Valleys, Trends

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• Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

  Deepak Chopra

  Philosophy, Discipline

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• The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Meditation, Unions

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• The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Sleep, Waking

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• Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

  Deepak Chopra

  Practice, Would Be, Worthwhile

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• While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Exercise, Benefits, Body

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