Yoga Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.

  Sadie Calvano

  Class, Space, Energy

  "Finding Play Through Work, with Sadie Calvano, star of CBS's Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.

  Jessica McNamee

  Running, Nuts, Meditation

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• I think that yoga, it really is a process.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Thinking, Process

  "Reality TV Star and Author Bethenny Frankel: On Love, Life, and Yoga". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.awaken.com. February 3, 2016.

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• Yoga has so many different practices. I don't really enjoy Ashtanga. I don't really enjoy Bikram because I don't like knowing what's coming.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Practice, Knowing, Different

  "Reality TV Star and Author Bethenny Frankel: On Love, Life, and Yoga". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.awaken.com. February 3, 2016.

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• I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Thinking, Soul, Use

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• Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

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• Yoga is so much more about the instructor than it is about the practice itself. It's their point of view and the way they teach that makes the experience so special and opens things up for me.

  Jennifer Widerstrom

  Views, Practice, Special

  "Jennifer Widerstrom: Fears, Philanthropy, and Fitness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.

  Brahmananda Saraswati

  Missing, States, Where You Are

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• Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Jobs, Teaching, Dark

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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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• Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Kind, This Life

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• The thing that I do in my day-to-day is teach Yoga, and train teachers, and train therapists, and now my life has gone to a whole other level because I became involved with people at the very top of American healthcare.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Teacher, People, Levels

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• My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Psychology, Depth, Degrees

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• 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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• I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.

  Emily Carpenter

  Practice, Space, Support

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• Yoga is really big - I'm actually a certified teacher, although I've never taught classes at a studio. I really find myself drawn to more traditional styles.

  Stephanie Ellis

  Teacher, Class, Style

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• That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance.

  Tara Stiles

  Matter, Circumstances, Teach

  Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.21, Harmony

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• I personally love working out, but I always try to switch it up. I do a few different things, like SoulCycle, SLT for Pilates, yoga.

  Nina Agdal

  Work Out, Trying, Different

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reading, Glasses, Perspective

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• Coming out of my first yoga class, I was astonished that there were nothing but hot girls there. Just 55 girls, Bobby Shriver, who's a buddy of mine, and myself. I came out of class, I was so high. I been sober 26 years, but I'm an ex-druggie.

  Russell Simmons

  Girl, Years, Class

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When the mind is totally still, there's only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, "Oh my God! I'm clear! I love this!"

  Russell Simmons

  Reality, Breathing, Class

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I try to do yoga. I really enjoy stretching and having a nice yoga class or taking a run on the beach. I'm not a big fan of the gym. I try to be out as much as possible.

  Laura Ramsey

  Running, Beach, Nice

  "Laura Ramsey, Hindsight Actor Interview: Failure and Growth". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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