31 quotes found
“If Samkhya-Yoga philosophy does not explain the reason and origin of the strange partnership between the spirit and experience, at least tries to explain the nature of their association, to define ...”
“I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazamyoure a guru, ready for your groupies.”
“Everything is sorrow for the wise.”
“Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)”
“When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.”
“She tried to do what the Equinox yoga instructor said to do and thank each thought for coming then let it float away, but the thoughts were not floating away and she couldn't force them away, not e...”
“Barbican Yoga Cave is a oasis for stress bust”
“For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; todays image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures...”
“The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences a stable platform to build on.”
“A yogi realizes the divinity in him and the divinity that is present in this world. In his own heartbeat and his own regular breath he feels the flow of all the seasons and the throbbing touch of u...”
“Not everything that is related to yoga is equally beneficial.”
“Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.”
“Take a Tree Pose in your life.”
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”
“Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I cant help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible.”
“The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that...”
“Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensati...”
“Youre never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.”
“The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world,...”
“Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.”
