Alice Walker Quotes

Yoga should not be just an exercise, but a means to connect with the world and with nature. It should bring a change in our lifestyle and create awareness within us.

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

Yoga has always been a part of my life, and it has had a major effect on me as a person, inside-out.

Yoga has helped me become more in tune and respectful of not just my body but my soul.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.

I could go on for days about why I love yoga. One of my favorite parts is I can't think about anything else other than doing what the teacher tells me to do. For me, someone who has a million things going on at any given moment, that kind of surrender is liberating. I also learn so much about myself - my limitations, my potential, how to be mindful of an injury.

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

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.

Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.

I am a little into yoga.

I meditate twice a day, T.M., and do yoga and tai chi.

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.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

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.

Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

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