Yoga is a life-saver.
Ione Skye

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you’re aware in anything you do – and it doesn’t have to be yoga – it changes you. Being present changes you.
Mariel Hemingway

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. Iyengar

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Christy Turlington

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough.
Amy Weintraub

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality
here in town.
Ashley Judd

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.
Bob Harper

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
Christy Turlington

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
Sharon Gannon

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
Christy Turlington

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

For me, first, it’s finding quiet in my life – and I do that through yoga and meditation
. It’s also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
Mariel Hemingway

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
Phillip Moffitt

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.
Mariel Hemingway

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% knowledge.
Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

I can set up shop anywhere. I’ve got my oils, I’ve got my yoga mat and I’m good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.
Minnie Driver

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day.
Carol Krucoff

I do Yoga. I’d like to say I do it every morning, but I don’t, I just don’t have the time.
Radha Mitchell

For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.
Mary Glover

I don’t do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don’t exercise.
Lisa Marie Presley

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.
T. Guillemets

I don’t smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.
Sarah Chalke

I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary.
Betsy Canas Garmon

I fell in love with doing yoga.
Ione Skye

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.
Liza Ciano

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
Ali MacGraw

The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub.
The Quotes Junction

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.
John Astin

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
Carl Jung

I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
Kristin Davis

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
Author Unknown

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
Gillian Anderson

Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more.
Patricia Walden

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.
Jeremy Brett

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: “I wish no gifts, only presence.”
Author Unknown

I need something to do when I’m not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I’ve just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn’t really me.
Ian Hart

Yoga is bodily gospel.
Reaven Fields

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.
Jill Clayburgh

If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga.
T. Guillemets

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.
Christy Turlington

Don’t just do something – sit there!
Author Unknown

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

I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I’m looking out of my third eye and everything that I’m supposed to be doing. It’s amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. “Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama’s got the magic of Clorox 2.”
Ellen DeGeneres

I think there’s room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
Sting

Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.
Svatmarama

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.
Jim Sullivan

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.
Patanjali

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
Mariel Hemingway

Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.
Jason Crandell

I was really involved with other people’s opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don’t have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It’s not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
Ali MacGraw

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.
Ymber Delecto

I’ve done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.
Monica Keena

Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released.
The Quotes Junction

It’s been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
Ali MacGraw

Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.
Baxter Bell

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
Sting

Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode.
Melanie Haiken

More yoga in the world is what we need.
Diane Lane

Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.
April Vallei

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.
Mariel Hemingway

Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You’re on your own side, and you are your own strength.
The Quotes Junction

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

Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet…. teaching us to root ourselves into the earth…. Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth.
Carol Krucoff

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
Vinoba Bhave

I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace.
The Quotes Junction

With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Lisa Marie Presley

All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you.
The Quotes Junction

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
Christy Turlington

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It’s helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Christy Turlington

Tree pose grows confidence.
The Quotes Junction

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
Christy Turlington

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
Krishnamacharya

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Sting

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.
T. Guillemets

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
Ziggy Marley

Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you’re forced down.
The Quotes Junction

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Indra Devi

Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious.
David Williams

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
Sting