64 Yoga Quotes to share with friends and relatives

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

What we’re trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head. – Rodney Yee

It doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go, what matters is who you are when you get there. – Max Strom

Yoga is not about touching your toes, it is what you learn on the way down. – Jigar Gor

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. – Carol Krucoff

You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga, you just have to be willing to shake the dust off and see what happens. – David Good

Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You’re on your own side, and you are your own strength. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet…. teaching us to root ourselves into the earth…. Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. – Carol Krucoff

Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

Tree pose grows confidence. It roots me to this world. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you’re forced down. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely. – John McAfee

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. – Donna Farhi

Hatha yoga is spirituality of the body; it is the most perfect union of corporeal and incorporeal. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

Yoga takes us to the present moment, the only place where life exists. – Ellen Brenneman

The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga — hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine. – Tara Fraser

It was obvious to me that for optimal fitness, yoga and Pilates belonged together…. Yogilates was born from my desire to create an accessible and effective regimen that contained the best of both techniques and would be ideal for everyone…. – Jonathan Urla, Yogilates: Integrating Yoga and Pilates for Complete Fitness, Str

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?… One enslaves, the other liberates. – Nisargadatta Maharaj, “Conversations with Nisargadatta Maharaj: Conversation #70