Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Yoga Quotes

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often. 
Maria Sharapova 

I go to yoga classes and work on my core. 
Maria Sharapova 

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga. 
Danica McKellar 

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 

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. 
Ricky Williams 

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 

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky. 
Serena Williams 

I started doing yoga. 
Carnie Wilson 

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk! 
Chris Martin 

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

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

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 

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

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

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning. 
Mehmet Oz 

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours. 
Danica Patrick 

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. 
Helen Reddy 

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips. 
Emily Blunt 

Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm. 
Giada De Laurentiis 

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

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 

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

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

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

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 

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 

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down. 
Christy Turlington 

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 

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

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us. 
Christy Turlington 

Yoga is not a religion to me. 
Christy Turlington 

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 

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 

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 

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

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body. 
Mariel Hemingway 

I'm not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker. 
Ryan Kwanten 

For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum. 
Molly Sims 

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


I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing. 
Elizabeth Berkley 

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 

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 

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 

I like doing yoga. I do yoga three times a week and I do Pilates twice. 
Heather Graham 

I work out a lot and I do yoga and I do Pilates and I'm kind of athletic. I've taken dance classes, but at the same point I'm just a total klutz. 
Heather Graham 

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian. 
Russell Brand 

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga. 
Russell Brand 

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

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike! 
Jennifer Lawrence 

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 

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

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

I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day. 
Tia Mowry 

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

I do Pilates and yoga and try to eat healthy. 
Amy Smart 

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds. 
Gisele Bundchen 

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

Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days. 
Robin Roberts 

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


I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. 
Imelda Staunton 

I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga. 
Kim Delaney 

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

Yoga's an amazing release. 
Monica Keena 

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness. 
Kyle Shewfelt 

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 

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week. 
John McLaughlin 

Yoga is an art and science of living. 
Indra Devi 

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions. 
Indra Devi 

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

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way. 
Thandie Newton 

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help. 
Courtney Thorne Smith 

I fell in love with doing yoga. 
Ione Skye 

Yoga is a life-saver. 
Ione Skye 

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it! 
Jill Hennessy 

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

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout. 
Steve Blake

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