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  • I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started. -- Donna Karan
  • Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others -- Donna Farhi
  • My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!" -- Faith Hunter
  • For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic. -- MC Yogi
  • In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort. -- Brenda Strong
  • Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality. -- Rajashree Choudhury
  • Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about. -- Rod Stryker
  • It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best. -- K. Pattabhi Jois
  • The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day. -- Kandyse McClure
  • When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me. -- MC Yogi
  • Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go. -- Sharon Gannon
  • Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels. -- Geeta Iyengar
  • The greatest motivator and leveler in my life has been my yoga practice. It has taught me how to be a grown-up, follow through, give back, be compassionate, be a better mother, wife, daughter, sibling, friend, and just show up. -- Emily Carpenter
  • Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
  • In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga. -- Vivienne Westwood
  • Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga. -- Christy Turlington
  • Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice. -- Tracy McMillan
  • I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation. -- Donna Karan
  • Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women. -- Adam Levine
  • So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor. -- Bikram Choudhury
  • Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. -- Indra Devi
  • I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me. -- Nina Dobrev
  • I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness. -- Pico Iyer
  • I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip. -- Brenda Strong
  • The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way. -- Sting
  • I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time. -- Christy Turlington
  • Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice. -- Giancarlo Esposito
  • I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy. -- Miranda Kerr
  • I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started. -- Andrew Mason
  • I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good! -- Sigrid Agren
  • People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure. -- Wayne Dyer
  • I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. -- Ricky Williams
  • I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up. -- Taylor Schilling
  • Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. -- K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga -- K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Yoga is the practice of radical transformation -- Georg Feuerstein
  • Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
  • Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. -- Patanjali
  • Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • It is never too late in life to practice yoga -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus. -- K. Pattabhi Jois
  • I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space. -- Emily Carpenter
  • Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves -- Bikram Choudhury
  • Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
  • I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present. -- Giancarlo Esposito
  • Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile. -- Deepak Chopra
  • If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
  • The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced. -- Miranda Kerr
  • Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead. -- Billy Childish
  • I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list. -- Donna Karan
  • By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation. -- Beryl Bender Birch
  • Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions. -- Lahiri Mahasaya
  • The practice of yoga allows us to become more conscious of our own physical existence and how significant we really are. -- Sharon Gannon
  • It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice. -- Kathryn Budig
  • I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week. -- Arianna Huffington
  • If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart. -- Rodney Yee
  • What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
  • I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall into alignment. -- MC Yogi
  • 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. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • 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. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment. -- Bryan Kest
  • Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream. -- Brenda Strong
  • If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life. -- Rod Stryker
  • Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do. -- Tara Stiles
  • Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • 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. -- Emily Saliers
  • When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. -- Ram Dass
  • Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice. -- Karan Bajaj
  • 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. -- Christy Turlington
  • Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully. -- Donna Farhi
  • My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep. -- Leilani Bishop
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