Me And My Yoga Mat Quotes & Sayings

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat. — Carre Otis

There's something so sweet about being on your yoga mat, whether that be at Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra, or in my living room. — Stephanie Ellis

A fair portion of my anger had returned, but alongside it ran the memory of those few seconds on the yoga mat in the death pose. I felt as if I had been shown a kind of essential secret, something so subtle and quiet and small(and yet so important)that I could gone my entire adult life and never even imagined such a thing existed. — Roland Merullo

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take. — Evita Ochel

At forty-two, I was still holding up pretty well, but my once effortlessly lean body now look as though it belonged in a Dove firming cream ad -- the one where they give women permission to have thighs. When I unbuttoned my jeans at night, I swore I heard the same sound that Pillsbury dough made when I twisted the cylindrical container. My hair was beginning to gray, and when I smiled, the parentheses around my mouth remained. My least favorite position in yoga class was the downward dog because, as I hung my head downward, I always felt the skin from my face was about to splatter against my mat like a pancake batter hitting the griddle. So being called the top model by a young Italian was a wonderful souvenir, though cheaper than the toys sold outside the Pantheon in Rome. — Jennifer Coburn

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

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content. — Gerald Brommer

I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space. — Amanda Schull

Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga. — Nelly

Nobody gets to tell you how big your dreams can be. — Rachel Hollis

My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys. — Natalie Dormer

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. — Italo Calvino

Yoga isn't just about showing up on the mat. It's about showing up in your life, in your day; it's about opening your heart while standing firm and strong and believing in yourself. — Kathryn E. Livingston

With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered. — Zoe McLellan

Be Good-Do Good-Be One — Kirpal Singh

I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night. — Rachel Boston

After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. Some people were like, 'You mean I've been eating a dangerous chemical?' While most people were like, 'You mean I can eat my yoga mat?' — Jimmy Fallon

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

Love is a diseases which makes the mind stop functioning and the heart beating faster. — Amit Abraham

Her kiss is soft and warm-inviting. We both explore, a hesitant dance as we glide over lines neither of us imagined crossing. — Katie McGarry

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed. — Adam Levine

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it. — Harold Town

The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend - it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life. — Rolf Gates

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. — Sun Tzu

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. — Jason Mraz

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world. — Vint Cerf

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat. — Karen Walker