Yoga Inspiration Quotes

“Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours in the first place is what causes us to miss out on the beauty of the miracle that is the now. All of this is yours, yet none of it is. How could it be? Look around you. Everything is fleeting.

To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go...it's the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime.”
― Rachel Brathen

“We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it.”
― Donna Goddard, Love s Longing

“It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.”
― Donna Goddard, Love s Longing

“Raja Yoga deals primarily with the mind and its control. But this control cannot be attained without leading a pure life, full of loving concern for all, and reflecting rather than reacting to negative thoughts or circumstances.”
― Swami Sarvagatananda

“The six pillars of yoga are: health, harmony, compassion, creativity, integrity, and truth.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“We can develop a small space between ourselves and our bodies and minds. In this way, even if we are suffering something physically or mentally, it will not have such an impact on our inner stability.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Yoga is often referred to as a moving meditation. In yoga, one goes deeply inward, connecting with the Divine while simultaneously moving the body in a beneficial and life-enhancing way. One does not force the pose or fall asleep. It is awake, reverent attention.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving

“The Yoga is in the in-between.
It’s between each breath, each posture, each experience. It’s in the growing, the learning, the doing, and, often, the waiting. We can grow more when we lean into the in-between and see the beauty in the process.”
― Raegan Robinson

“Here you are, a breathing being on this spinning blue dot, a safe haven for human life in a universe estimated to be about ninety-three billion light-years in diameter and growing. Here we are, the two of us, connected in this moment, sitting here among perhaps two trillion galaxies, breathing this beautiful breath, intricately linked, shared energy flowing in, out, and through us.”
― Sagel Urlacher, Yin Yoga & Meditation

“In Yin Yoga, your mat is your meditation cushion.”
― Sagel Urlacher, Yin Yoga & Meditation

“You are a miracle of consciousness, a heart beating in your beautiful body, enabling you to perceive and receive this stream of sensory information with appreciation and awe. You, too, are pulsing with energy, activated by the very same Elements animating the stars. Pause to consciously acknowledge the wondrous amalgamation you are, a compilation of complex biological systems that motor your movements inside and out, persistently powering your physical and mental processes, keeping you awake and alive, brimming with potential as a being of peace and of love.”
― Sagel Urlacher, Yin Yoga & Meditation

“Equal parts science and spirit, Yin Yoga & Meditation is a practice of presence and wellbeing for the whole self.”
― Sagel Urlacher

“Yoga is the religion of truth, health, harmony, compassion, and creativity.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“How else can one claim one’s maternal heritage but by being blood and bone, dirt and stone?”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“The secret of concentration is the acceptance of endless distractions. Yoga is invigoration in relaxation, freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. Energy within & energy without.”
― Unknown

“Yoga is a self religion within world. It is not a science, not a science of well-being, not a science of youthfulness, not a science of integrating body, mind and soul.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Your greatest ignorance persists when you are unaware of your finite nature.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Yoga means subtraction - subtraction of negative energy, weakness, and fatigue from body, mind, and soul.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“There are many paths but one goal - the goal of passion.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Life itself is a rare occurrence.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“If someone wounds your heart, instead of understanding or reasoning or searching for the weapon, spend time, as a mother does to her baby, to care for the hole in your own heart.”
― Andrea L. Wehlann, Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos

“Use asana as a tool along the path, not as the body's destination.”
― Raegan Robinson

“Part of owning your power is being a spiritual warrior in life. The will to live is really the will to fight. Yoga teaches that life is not only a school but also a battlefield. You are trying to get to the top of a mountain. Progress entails taking three steps forward and slipping back two until the top is reached. This is the nature of life for everyone on the spiritual path. The most important thing is not to be a quitter. Paramahansa Yogananda, the great Indian sage, said, “A saint is a sinner who never gave up.” Part of owning your power is to keep plugging away.”
― Joshua David Stone, Soul Psychology By Stone Joshua David

“Take time during your practice to move through each posture with increased awareness of the subtlety of each moment. Notice any shifts in the breath, in sensation, in the mind.”
― Raegan Robinson