Yoga Quotes Quotes

Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.

~ Debasish Mridha

Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.

~ Debasish Mridha

Create peace within yourself so that you can spread the fragrance of peace all around the world.

~ Debasish Mridha

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

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

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

~ Amit Ray

The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.

~ Amit Ray

Peace is the foundation of yoga. Karma yoga is the effort for bringing peace and happiness in the world.

~ Amit Ray

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

~ Amit Ray

When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.

~ Amit Ray

Like the tightly closed eyelids of a child trying to escape the reprimand of a parent, there is a part of the mind that needs to shut down in the face of an internal dialogue that is steeped in guilt, shame, and self-loathing.

~ Darren Main

Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person.By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms:1. Raja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation2. Karma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties3. Hatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises4. Jyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge5. Bhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal GodThe purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.

~ Amit Ray

Each one of you carries the potential to blossom like flowers. When you blossom, petals of your mind open and the fragrance spread far and near.

~ Banani Ray

Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

There is no god out there but Oneness of All That Is.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Breath is your link to life, the direct connection to your spirit.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

When you grasp the yogic principles and philosophies, you can apply them to any activity you are doing. Then every thing you do is spiritually enhancing your life. And this leads to the ultimate experience where everything you do is YOGA. It is all Union, unifying you with the Supreme Source.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

The path to wholeness starts by loving yourself. It always starts there. If you love yourself, you will do whatever it takes to restore your health and happiness.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

The yoga asana practice was developed to get the body in the best physical condition possible, so that the yoga practitioner would be able to sit for many hours comfortably in meditation. In order to reach the higher spiritual vibrations we must be as strong, flexible and open as possible.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

The asana practice is extremely powerful and unique in design. In addition to improved flexibility, circulation, muscular strength and increased energy, and detoxification of the organs, each pose unblocks life force energy (prana) pathways in your body, reprograms your cellular DNA and connects us to our spiritual origin.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Please don’t worry that yoga will contradict your religious belief systems, as Pranashama Yoga embraces all religions and beliefs systems. I believe we are all One and that Love is the highest truth. Love is my Religion.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Feel whatever arises fully, and then let go of any identification with what you’re feeling. You are at choice. You don’t have to go through another moment of suffering. Break free from the societal constructs that say, 'Life is meant to be a challenge.' This is not true. You have the capacity to become the observer of your emotional reactions and check in with your heart each time, to respond from love and compassion. This is the key to becoming liberated from the bonds of emotional suffering.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Know, in every moment, that you have attracted this situation into your life experience so you can grow and learn the lessons necessary to get to the next level.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Every moment is an opportunity to become more enlightened, more open and expanded. Continually choose that path and you will be free.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Your body is a physical representation of the cumulative effect of all the experiences you’ve had throughout your life.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Our greatest opportunities are to let go and surrender to that which is greater than our egoistic needs and desires.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

As with all things in the physical plane, nothing is permanent, and the only thing we can truly count on is change. Things come and go, people are born and die and move in and out of our lives. The dreams and goals of today will one day either materialize or evolve into something different with time. If we become rigidly attached to any of this, we set ourselves up for the inevitable suffering that will ensue when the thing, person or idea flows out of our lives, or our desire for it shifts.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

It is key to remember we can maintain a genuine enthusiasm and love for what IS, in the PRESENT moment, enjoy it with gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Whether you’re at the peak or the valley of any given wave, remember that this too shall pass.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

When we return continually to the present moment and our centered awareness within it, we remember we are eternally connected to the Supreme Source that lives within us.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon

We will attract potential partners who reflect back to us what we need to heal, balance and strengthen in ourselves- until we become whole. At that point, we can attract our twin flame or soul mate and enjoy a peaceful co- creative partnership that benefits all of mankind.

~ Dashama Konah Gordon