Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.”
“Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.”
“Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.”
“Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.”
“Yoga is about life, this means all of life, not just part of it.”
Source: The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom
“Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's not about comparing yourself or judging yourself, it's about being in that moment and doing your best.”
“Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.”
“Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.”
“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.”
Source: Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee
“Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.”
“Yoga is an attractive, inquisitive and practical expression of true love for your inner self.”
“Yoga is an inner experience - a workIN within a workOUT.”
“Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.”
“Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.”
“Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.”
“Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.”
“Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.”
“Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.”
“Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.”
Source: The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
“Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.”
“Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“Yoga is establishing connection with the every cell of the body and with every soul of the cosmos.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation.”
“Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.”
“Yoga is for everyone. Personally I believe yoga would benefit anyone's life. It is such an amazing form of exercise and if you practice regularly it really slows your mind down and it helps you to get perspective. It keeps you incredibly fit and really flexible. It helps prevent ailments because you're working all the body.”
“Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.”
“Yoga is freedom—the stillness beyond thoughts and emotions. For just five minutes, watch every thought and feeling that arises. See them as passing clouds, not yours to hold. In this awareness, taste the profound freedom that is already within you.”
“Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.”
“Yoga is just good for you.”
“Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.”
Source: Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 6
“Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.”
“Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.”
“Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Yoga is mind wave quieting.”
“Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.”
“Yoga is more than movement; it’s a way to connect with our inner being, aligning our mind, body, and soul for a meaningful life.”
“Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being”
“Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.”
“Yoga is my saving grace.”
“Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.”
“Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.”
Source: Ayurveda and the Mind: The Healing of Consciousness
“Yoga is not a religion to me.”
“Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.”
“Yoga is not about chasing perfection; it’s about embracing wholeness—being fully present, here and now. True healing begins when we live in our totality”
“Yoga is not about having the perfect positions, it's not about who's the best and who's the most flexible. A lot of people are saying to me 'I can't do yoga because I'm not flexible,' but that's exactly why you should do it. It's not about being flexible. It's not about who's the best. It's about doing your best on that particular day.”
“Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.”
“Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow”