Quotes & Sayings About Yoga Poses

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment. — Dharma Mittra

The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we're done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we're fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we're done practicing yoga. — Rod Stryker

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers. — B.K.S. Iyengar

(Sophie did a few yoga poses to stretch until she saw Tedros gawking and decided yoga was best done in private.) It — Soman Chainani

...it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world. — Dani Shapiro

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses. — Mary Elizabeth Ellis

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 sensations. But our amygdala in the brain is carrying the "fight or flight response"; it has forgotten the art of releasing the tensions. As human beings, when we are aware about the sensations, we can release that by aware, slow movements. If you do not give movements to the body parts, energy will be stuck and blood circulation will be disturbed. Gradually, that creates chronic physical and mental health problems. — Amit Ray

I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam - you're a guru, ready for your groupies. — Edward Vilga

I take my fearless approach into my teaching by helping my students to realize their potential through yoga. I have a gift for making difficult poses accessible and reminding people that postures, and anything in life, are only as hard as you make them out to be. — Kathryn Budig

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul. — Amit Ray

Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving. — Maryrose Wood

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life. — Amit Ray

Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. The practice of yoga is the practice of meditation-or inner listening-in the poses and meditations, as well as all day long. It's a matter of listening inwardly for guidance all the time, and then daring enough and trusting enough to do as you are prompted to do ... — Erich Schiffmann

For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses. — Ellen DeGeneres

I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms. — Charles Michael Davis

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists. — Walter Kirn