Hatha Yoga Quotes:

Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment.

- Cyndi Lee

topic: Powerful, Yoga, Self, Hatha Yoga, Fluctuation

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Arrows, Soul, Hatha Yoga

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

source: B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.35, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

topic: Motivational, Yoga, Light, Inspiring Yoga, Mind Body And Spirit

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Business, Fall, Fall Into Place, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

- Bob Harper

topic: Yoga, Youth, Fountain, Inspiring Yoga, Stretching

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

- Patanjali

topic: Success, Yoga, Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Attitude, Yoga, Skills, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

The pose begins when you want to leave it.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Want, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga And Life, Yoga Practice, Hatha Yoga

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Synthesis of Yoga: Art of living”, p.55, editionNEXT.com

topic: Yoga, Practice, Faces, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga Peace

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

topic: Yoga, Exercise, May, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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.

- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

source: "Stress Out: Show Stress Who's the Boss!". Book by Sumner M. Davenport (p.9), November 11, 2009.

topic: Yoga, Surrender, Approach, Meditation And Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

- Bikram Choudhury

topic: Yoga, Inward, Frozen, Bikram, Hatha Yoga

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Needs, Cures, Inspirational Body, Meditation And Yoga

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Self, Perfect, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

- Joseph Pilates

topic: Spine, Young, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

- Patanjali

topic: Yoga, Compassion, Meditation, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

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.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

source: "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom". Book edited by Kelsie Besaw, p. 22, 2014.

topic: Yoga, Mind, Want, Meditation And Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

Do your practice and all is coming.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

source: John Scott, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (2000). “Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga”, Harmony Books

topic: Yoga, Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga Inspiration

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Yoga, Fall, Goes On, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

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

topic: Success, Basketball, Sports, Endurance Sports, Yoga Practice

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

topic: Inspiring, Yoga, Giving, Inhale, Inspiring Yoga

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

topic: Yoga, Eye, Silence, Inspirational Yoga, Third Eye

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

topic: Mother, Teacher, Yoga, Inspirational Yoga, Hatha Yoga

Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one of many countries that have received these age-old teachings. While Indian yogic disciplines (Hatha yoga in particular) have become well known, not everyone realizes that certain distinctive Japanese versions of Indian spiritual paths have evolved. Perhaps the first of these unique methodologies is the art of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which was developed by Nakamura Tempu Sensei (1876-1968). In fact, Nakamura Sensei is often considered to be the father of yoga in Japan.

- H. E Davey

source: "Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation". Book by H.E.Davey, 2001.

topic: Spiritual, Country, Art, Sensei, Hatha Yoga

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

- Douglas Groothuis

topic: Yoga, Discipline, Assumption, Hatha Yoga

What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

- Rajashree Choudhury

topic: Sports, Yoga, Breathing, Physical Body, Hatha Yoga

A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Buddhism, Giving, Psychedelic Drugs, Hatha Yoga

People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.

- Rajashree Choudhury

topic: Sports, Yoga, Two, Hatha Yoga