When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga. – Geeta Iyengar
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. – B.K.S. Iyengar
The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough. – Amy Weintraub
The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. – Richard Hittleman
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible. – Bob Harper
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. – Sharon Gannon
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. – K. Pattabhi Jois
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. – Phillip Moffitt
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. – K. Pattabhi Jois
I would like for people to realize that yoga is not about touching your toes. – Gary Kraftsow
I like the physical part, but I’m also drawn to the spiritual. For me, yoga is not just a workout—it’s about working on yourself. – Mary Glover, “Health Profile: Yoga leaves aches and pains behind,” A
In our uniquely human capacity of connect movement with breath and spiritual meaning, yoga is born. – Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. – Terri Guillemets, 2002
I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)
The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. – Liza Ciano, co-owner & co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. – Carl Jung
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. – Author Unknown
Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more. – Patricia Walden
When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence. – Author Unknown
While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves. – Valerie Jeremijenko
