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Not everything that is related to yoga is equally beneficial.

Living in the Spirit of Yoga: Take Yoga Off the Mat and Into Your Everyday Life

The real difference between yoga and religion is this: Religion says believe, do not doubt, often citing the word of God and promises of an eternal afterlife, reciting dogma (unsubstantiated pre-modern myths), while yoga only points the way and urges...

Living in the Spirit of Yoga: Take Yoga Off the Mat and Into Your Everyday Life

For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today’s image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas t...

Living in the Spirit of Yoga: Take Yoga Off the Mat and Into Your Everyday Life

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra

If only the physical aspects of hatha yoga are used, it is called ghatastha yoga (ghata means “physical effort”). Modern expressions like “fitness yoga” and “power yoga” that flourish within gym classes are within the same category, even ...

Breatheology

I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

Natalie Dormer

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques

Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.

Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Without yoga, my breast cancer experience would have been much more difficult. The trust, courage and strength one develops through the practice of yoga will set anyone up to face life's most challenging experiences. I've heard folks say «Oh, I don'...

Kathryn E. Livingston

The point of tantric sex was supposedly to harness sexual energy to awaken higher consciousness. It was just like yoga, but way more fun.

The Yoga Sutras

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

Bryan Cranston

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

Moby

Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current ...

Living in the Spirit of Yoga: Take Yoga Off the Mat and Into Your Everyday Life

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.

Russell Smith

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

I need to go to my yoga class - I love hot yoga!

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

The Yoga Sutras

Meditation is yoga for the mind, just as there is yoga of the body.

Love

Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga–whether physical yoga or meditation–with other...

The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra