Yoga Practice Quotes - Page 3

• The greatest motivator and leveler in my life has been my yoga practice. It has taught me how to be a grown-up, follow through, give back, be compassionate, be a better mother, wife, daughter, sibling, friend, and just show up.

  Emily Carpenter

  Daughter, Mother, Sibling

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• Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Simple, Light

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• Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Practice, Fundamentals

  Donna Farhi (2008). “Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.

  MC Yogi

  Yoga, Practice, Chaotic

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.

  Dharma Mittra

  Attitude, Mistake, Yoga

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• My bodysuit is how I start everyday. I wear a bodysuit everyday of my life. It's how I start my yoga practice. It's underneath it all. For me, what goes under the clothes is as important as what goes on top of the clothes. It's a layering aspect, so it's inside.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, Practice, Clothes

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

  Sharon Gannon

  Struggle, Yoga, Practice

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2011). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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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

  Yoga, Practice, Effort

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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

  Yoga, Sleep, Exercise

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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

  Yoga, Destiny, Light

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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

  Yoga, Practice, Enlightenment

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

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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, Yoga, Practice

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

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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, Yoga, Practice

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• Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Practice, Focus

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  "The U.S. Yoga Federation Founder + President Rajashree Choudhury". Interview with Zoë Kors. Part I, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we’re fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we’re done practicing yoga.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Self, Practice

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• It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.

  Dharma Mittra

  Encouragement, Attitude, Yoga

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• It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Philosophy, Yoga, Practice

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• When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

  MC Yogi

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

  Sharon Gannon

  Karma, Yoga, Practice

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, Practice, Long

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Yoga, Maturity, Practice

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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, Yoga, Practice

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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, Yoga, Motherhood

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• No reason to get angry at anybody for slapping you literally or figuratively. It's just nature unfolding perfectly and obviously that slap is part of my process that is shaping me as I become all I'm becoming. I'm sure this understanding will be a big help to us in our yoga practice and also as a teacher. More than anything though, it will affect the way we look at everything in our life, which affects how we respond to things.

  Bryan Kest

  Teacher, Yoga, Practice

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