Brenda Strong Quotes

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

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.

While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body.

With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it.

I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

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.

My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.

Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.

You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.