Yoga Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.

  David F. Swensen

  Brother, Grateful, California

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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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• 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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• I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.

  David F. Swensen

  Style, Balance, Centeredness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Years, People

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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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• 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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• Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfless Giving, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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