Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Childish

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Brian Regan

I thought yoga was easy - I went out and I bought a yoga video tape. I bought the beginners' yoga tape. I couldn't do anything on the whole hour - nothing - just fast forwarding: can't do that, can't do that - I know I can't do that. This woman in a soothing voice: 'Simply take the bottom of your right foot and place it on the small of your back.

Brenda Strong

In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

Jane Fonda

You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.

Diane Lane

More yoga in the world is what we need.

Damon Runyon

I cook all the time. It's a passion of mine. Mostly, I eat clean, unprocessed food, a lot of vegetables, and protein. I work out daily; at home, I row and do yoga and P90x. At the gym I work out with my friend and trainer Ben Dussault at the Anchored Social Club, focusing on balance and strength. Whenever I can get outside, I love stand-up paddle boarding, surfing, and cycling.

Elizabeth Hurley

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly.

Barbara de Angelis

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Ashley Rickards

I eat organic as much as possible, cleanse regularly, and love outdoor activities like paddle boarding, hiking, swimming, kickboxing, and yoga. But honestly it's more of a psychological thing for me. If I feel good on the inside, I treat my body with more respect.

Ashley Judd

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.

Britney Spears

I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

Deepak Chopra

Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.

Deepak Chopra

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

Deepak Chopra

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

Deepak Chopra

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Deepak Chopra

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

Deepak Chopra

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

Deepak Chopra

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

Deepak Chopra

If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.

Deepak Chopra

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

Deepak Chopra

While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body.

Ali MacGraw

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

Ali MacGraw

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

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.

Alan Cohen

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Adam Levine

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

Adam Levine

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

Adam Levine

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

Adam Levine

There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

Adam Levine

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

Abraham Lincoln

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I try to do yoga once a week.

Aleister Crowley

Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.