meditative movement Quotes

I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

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

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.

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

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

I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Yoga is a gift that you give yourself.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

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

Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health'

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

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.

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

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

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

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it.

We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

I was one of those skeptics that thought that yoga was for kooks. Now I'm on a very strict regimen. You know, I work out. That's another thing I've learned relaxin', sleep, yoga. I didn't know that that's as crucial as going hard, as workin' hard, as exercising hard. I never knew. I thought that, "Okay, I gotta be at the gym like five hours everyday going balls to the wall." And what my yoga instructor, what my trainer, what they're trying to teach me is that, "No, it's sleep." That's important. That's just as important as workin' out.

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 is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath.

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.

I think that yoga, it really is a process.