Everyone thinks they can cure stress by adding to their schedule, like going to yoga. Oh, great - one more thing to feel guilty about when you can't do it.
Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise!
I did yoga in the cell, meditated, and slept well; somebody brings you some food and drink. I've been arrested four times now.
Exercise and fitness will always be part of my life but it does not have to be lifting huge weights; I like yoga, cycling, walking swimming, anything.
I don't practice yoga, but it's on my list of things to try again. I gave it a shot, but the class was too advanced for me, and I felt overwhelmed and a little embarrassed.
There is nothing like a good three-mile run for me to really clear my head and get my endorphins going. My other go-to is yoga.
But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.
I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty surya namaskars in a row.
I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.
I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!
The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.
For me yoga is relaxing. It allows me to unwind after a tiring day at work.
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
We need to bring the spiritual dimension back into yoga and encourage students to look for teachings and practices that will take them to the next level.
I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don't want to be a weak, sick 90-year-old.
I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!
I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes.
Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.
I do Y7 Yoga; I take a lot of Akin's Army classes, soul cycle, boot camps, tone house, SLT, boxing. I do everything.
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm 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.
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.
I personally love working out, but I always try to switch it up. I do a few different things, like SoulCycle, SLT for Pilates, yoga.
I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.
I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to.
It helps to have a fit body if you are meditating. Yoga conditions the body so that the mind can meditate.
I started going to yoga classes as I thought that would be a good place to meet girls, but it is hard to chat to someone when you are balancing upside down.
Yoga is a big part of my destressing. Even sitting on the floor for 10 minutes to center myself, stretch and relax can be a huge game changer.
I lie to myself every day when I tell myself, 'I can skip yoga.'
Anything that's outdoorsy and fun, like hiking, biking, running, paddleboarding, swimming in the ocean... and then I'll mix in Pilates, yoga, spin, ballet.
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.
Yoga calms me down. It gives me energy and focus.
Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.
I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.
I don't really begrudge anyone who uses substances, I just feel that yoga is a more sustainable way to find peace because it's from the inside out.
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.
While Chris Martin has a deep interest in yoga spirituality, it does not make him an expert on how best to portray Desi heritage.
One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.
Any time I am nervous, I do a couple of yoga breaths, and I am fine.
I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
I do Hatha yoga at Yogaworks three times a week and do two hikes a week.
Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.
I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
A lot of times people will think, ‘I’m strong, I’m in shape; why can’t I do this pose?’? But that’s not the point. There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.
Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.
My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.
As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.
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