Quotes and Sayings about Yoga
"I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it."
- John Astin
(Related: Meditation, Now, Yoga)
"Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same."
- Vinoba Bhave
(Related: Truth, Heart, Karma, Names, Yoga)
"I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much."
- Jeremy Brett
(Related: Yoga)
"I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: People, Yoga)
"I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog."
- Sarah Chalke
(Related: Love, Right, Yoga)
"I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Yoga)
"I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate."
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Men, Eyes, Yoga)
"Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions."
- Indra Devi
(Related: Yoga)
"Yoga is an art and science of living."
- Indra Devi
(Related: Art, Science, Living, Yoga)
"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
- Indra Devi
(Related: Fear, Freedom, Loneliness, Practice, Yoga)
"I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet."
- Minnie Driver
(Related: Cities, Yoga)
"I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me."
- Ian Hart
(Related: Yoga)
"I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Experience, Life, Body, First, Meditation, Spiritual, Yoga)
"Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Class, Understanding, Yoga)
"Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Body, Yoga)
"For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Food, Life, First, Meditation, Quiet, Yoga)
"I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: End, Exercise, Yoga)
"A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Music, Being, Exercise, Present, Yoga)
"A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: People, Interest, Spirituality, Years, Yoga)
"I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon."
- Monica Keena
(Related: Want, Yoga)
"Yoga's an amazing release."
- Monica Keena
(Related: Yoga)
"More yoga in the world is what we need."
- Diane Lane
(Related: World, Yoga)
"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"
- Jennifer Lawrence
(Related: Running, Yoga)
"I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that."
- Ali MacGraw
(Related: People, Career, Film, Now, Opinion, Opinions, Yoga)
"It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am."
- Ali MacGraw
(Related: Experience, Want, Yoga)
"I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life."
- Ali MacGraw
(Related: Life, Rest, Yoga)
"Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more."
- Ziggy Marley
(Related: Meditation, Yoga)
"I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time."
- Radha Mitchell
(Related: Time, Yoga)
"I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise."
- Lisa Marie Presley
(Related: Food, Exercise, Wrong, Yoga)
"With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails."
- Lisa Marie Presley
(Related: Health, Exercise, Hair, Nothing, Ugly, Yoga)
"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Health, Problems, Yoga)
"I fell in love with doing yoga."
- Ione Skye
(Related: Love, Yoga)
"Yoga is a life-saver."
- Ione Skye
(Related: Life, Yoga)
"The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way."
- Sting
(Related: Journey, Practice, Spiritual, Yoga)
"Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it."
- Sting
(Related: Music, End, Yoga)
"Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs."
- Sting
(Related: Meditation, Songs, Style, Writing, Yoga)
"Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult."
- Sting
(Related: Life, Spiritual, Yoga)
"I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga."
- Sting
(Related: Work, Exploration, Yoga)
"I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down."
- Jim Sullivan
(Related: Help, Yoga)
"Yoga gave me the ability to calm down."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Ability, Yoga)
"Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Buddhist, Body, Mind, Sense, Spirit, Word, Yoga)
"Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Beliefs, Spiritual, Yoga)
"Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Being, Compassion, Generosity, World, Yoga)
"Yoga is not a religion to me."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Religion, Yoga)
"Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Practice, Spirituality, Study, Yoga)
"A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Religion, People, Beliefs, Spiritual, Yoga)
"I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Life, People, Day, Yoga)
"I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Time, Friend, Yoga)
"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Life, Power, Science, Nature, Sister, Longevity, Philosophy, Yoga)
"There are always two forces warring against each other within us."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Related: Truth, Reality)
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Related: Heart, First, Friends, Thinking, Will)
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Related: Success, Time, Failure)
"The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Related: Being, Creation, Freedom, Man)
"The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Related: Happiness, Heart, Soul)
"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Related: Soul, Heart, Eyes, May, Smile, Smiles)
"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Related: Will)