10 Favorite Yoga Quotes

I love quotes! I also love yoga, so I thought 'why not pick out my favorite quotes about yoga and share them with you?' I hope you find at least 1 quote here that you really resonate with!

10 Favorite Yoga Quotes

  1. "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

  2. "Come to your yoga mat to feel, not to accomplish." - Rachel Brathen

  3. "The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it." - B.K.S. Iyengar

  4. "Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus." - Sri Pattabhi Jois

  5. "By our stumbling, the world is perfected." - Yogi Bhajan

  6. "While pain may be the catalyst that brings us to yoga practice, it is joy that renews our commitment." - Donna Farhi

  7. "The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures, but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships." - T.K.V. Desikachar

  8. "The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in." - B.K.S. Iyengar

  9. "If I can't wear yoga pants, I'm not going." - Anonymous

  10. "The point of practicing asanas is to become sensitive, attuned, and adaptable. Whether we attain great gymnastic abilities becomes entirely inconsequential in the context of yoga as a life practice. If we become enamored with the performance of advanced postures and fix our identity on these achievements, we have simply replaced one false identity with another." - Donna Farhi