Before, if I'd had a stressful day, I'd go to meet my friends in the pub and have a moan. Now I go to yoga.
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.
What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.
India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
I work hard, I will tell you that. I do a very low carb, high protein diet. I do Tracy Anderson, I do Body by Simone, I do Pilates, and I do Bikram Yoga.
When I am practicing yoga, I try to avoid music. But if I really have to listen to something, I listen to the Om chant.
I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam—you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.
If people love 'Gremlins' so much and 'Clueless,' 'Yoga Hosers' is not that weird. It is very weird, but compared to that stuff, it's not that different.
Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing.
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.
Unite has a great dry shampoo called 7Seconds. After a hot yoga class, when I'm super sweaty I spray this on and my hair comes back to life. Miraculous!
My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.
I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aerial Pilates; you're in the air and with straps. It's crazy fun.
In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.
Yoga practice is therapeutic for the body and mind, reminds us of our goodness, energizes our creativity, and inspires.
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
I don't chase the perfect figure. I'd rather focus on staying and eating healthy. A combination of running, swimming, yoga and circuit training works brilliantly for my body.
I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.
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.
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.
I absolutely love going to hot yoga in the winter. It feels amazing when you walk there in the cold, and then get into this peaceful, heated room to meditate and stretch.
I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
Yoga teaches you aim for the highest first, and the highest is always love. From there everything else will follow.
When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate... name it.
In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I've made over the years, and because I'm very into smells, I have some burned sage on my bedside to help clear my head.
I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
I know everyone says they go to yoga, but I actually really go. I notice that helps me so much.
I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
I stretched my whole career - it didn't save me when I blew my back, and of course, that's where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from.
That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.
Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.
In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.
Yoga really helped with stress relief and just not hurting myself when I tour. It really was super helpful.
I'm really interested in finding good tips to stay in shape, and I love being in the gym, and I love doing yoga.
Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others
Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.
I vary exercises and don't always go to the gym. When I don't, I'll try to work out 10 minutes before bed. Lunges, pushups, abs, yoga. A little of everything.
In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.
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.
When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.
I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.
If you don't do yoga, it doesn't mean that you can't have a sense of detachment, which means not attaching yourself to your thoughts or your emotions.
I am doing everything to be fit - like not eating oily food, doing yoga, gymming and consulting my doc.
I think perfect happiness has a lot to do with peace. For me, I get peace from writing, from the people in my life, and from yoga - om!
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
I'm getting into all sorts of L.A. things. I go to bikram yoga, I went to an astrologer recently... I'm accepting L.A. for who she is. She's a dark temptress.
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
Yoga is a part of who I am. It has given me a permanent relationship. A relationship between my body, my mind, and my emotions.
I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
I did yoga in both of my labors. It's painful, but it helps you, you're supposed to stay active and move around. A lot of squatting. I didn't take any childbirth classes.
With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.
You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.
I'm really self-conscious if I go to trainers, so I just do stuff on my own. I go on the treadmill or do yoga and Pilates if I can.
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.
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