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YOGAYoga is more than a set of physical exercises to keep you toned, flexible and healthy. Yoga is a way of life. It changes you if you let. Transforming how you see, live and interact with the world.

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Deepen your practice Inspire you And be a resource that you can turn to when you just don't

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We all have those days. When life gets busy. When there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to get everything done. It's on those days – during the chaos of life – that you should come back to the mat. Come back to yourself. Come back to Yoga.

We hope that this little eBook helps you do just that.

LadanFounder of Body To Bliss Yoga



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

Unknown



The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a

lot more. Liza Ciano



When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied:

“I wish no gifts, only presence.” Unknown



Don't just do something - sit there!

Unknown



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

Jason Crandell



Yoga accepts. Yoga gives. April Vallei



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



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

The Quote Garden



We are what we think.All that we are arises

with our thoughts.With our thoughts,we make the world.

Buddha



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 really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies.

To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on

your being able to love your body.Rodney Yee



The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of

the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

Annie Wood Besant



If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Jack Kornfield



When I started doing asana, the yoga postures, I had a very strong feeling of many unnecessary things dropping away - especially tension

and inadequacy.Patricia Sullivan



Beyond meditation there is the experience of now.

Ryan Parenti



Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than

knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of

attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita



A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets

people to pose for themselves. T. Guillemets



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



Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be

able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought...

Unknown



Yoga Science teaches us to 'include all and exclude none.' If the outer guru, in the form of a person or experience, reflects the Truth and light of the inner guru, the advice is to be heeded and served in thought, word and deed. If a suggestion from the outer guru is not in harmony with the inner guru as

reflected by the purified discrimination of buddhi,the advice is to be honored and lovingly rejected

with gratitude - for your teacher has just taught you what not to do. Leonard Perlmutter



These days, my practice is teaching me to embrace imperfection: to have compassion for all the ways things haven't turned out as I planned, in my body and in my life

- for the ways things keep falling apart, and failing, and breaking down. It's less about fixing things, and more about

learning to be present for exactly what is. Anne Cushman



Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they

become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.

Upanishads



Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you

are seeking the Truth. James Allen



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



Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads.

It leads most perfectly. Sri Chinmoy



To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of

meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of

thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions...

Unknown



Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit. It is a moment by moment and thought by thought

practical guide for living. Leonard Perlmutter



Fear less, hope more;eat less,chew more;

whine less, breathe more;talk less, say more;hate less, love more;

and all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb



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

Sting



Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well

being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for

happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a

tool to create peace on Earth. Sharon Gannon



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



Yoga is 99% practiceand 1% theory. Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois



For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself.

Mary Glover



Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the

ghosts are released. The Quote Garden



Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns

that cause anxiety. Baxter Bell



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 Quote Garden



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

the secret of success. Hatha Yoga Pradipika



The body is your temple.Keep it pure and cleanfor the soul to reside in.

B.K.S Iyengar



Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.

Desikashar



Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a

systematized collection of laws applied to bring abouta definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology,

applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, andapplies those rationally in a particular case.

This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that

you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

Annie Wood Besant



Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted - in body, mind, and

heart - and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared,

our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves.

Our lives begin to flow - or we begin

to flow more in our lives. Cybele Tomlinson



The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It

means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health

that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being's

three components:body, mind, and spirit.

Stella Weller



In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we

do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a

different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely

different outcomes. Donna Farhi



Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you

have built. Rumi



Ashtanga yoga has completely changed me. I try to do it every day, and the effect is amazing. It’s not just during the hours

that I’m practicing. It’s about how it filters through into the rest of my life. It

makes all the other bullshit dissipate. Who I am has emerged, and everything else

has gone by the wayside.Gwyneth Paltrow



Real peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged

by gain or loss' Yogi Bhajan



The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga

are your body and your mind. Rodney Yee



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. Yoga means union

- the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. 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



Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest,

coldest winter day. Carol Krucoff



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



Yoga is invigorationin relaxation. Freedom in

routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within

and energy without. Ymber Delecto



Tree pose grows confidence. The Quote Garden



You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your

mind, yoga is not for you.Osho



Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life

but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of

experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind

in the hopes of something better. Donna Farhi



Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or

Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in

infinity. Swami Sivananda



The perennial wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita can teach us how to transform our character,

conduct and consciousness to meet the challenges of everyday life.

Leonard Perlmutter



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



The purpose of yoga is awareness, not perfected poses, beliefs, or any kind of

attainment. Awareness from moment to moment requires quiet

strength, flexibility, and balance. A good Yoga practice develops exactly

these characteristics.Jim Gaudette



Yoga is a path to undo the root of all types of misery through the direct

experience of deep, clear, open awareness.

Richard Freeman



To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an

hour.William Blake



Do you have the patienceto wait till your mud settles

and the water is clear?Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

Tao Te Ching



Yoga's greatest gift is the vulnerability that fills your tender heart after a deep practice session

and the spiritual strength that gives you the benefit of unflappable faith

and devotion.Kino MacGregor



Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for

five short minutes.Etty Hillesum



Yoga asks you to make peace with the deepest, most terrifying parts of yourself and then make that same

peace with the external world.Kino MacGregor



Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of

leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the

elimination of non-essentials.Lin Yutan



Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create

the symphony of life.BKS Iyengar



We have never arrived.We are in a constant state

of becoming.Bob Dylan



Eat less, taste more.Chinese Proverb



Yoga has nothing as far as belief is concerned; yoga doesn’t say to believe in

anything. Yoga says experience. Just like science says experiment, yoga says experience.

Experiment and experience are both the same, their directions are different.

Experiment means something you can do outside; experience means something you can

do inside. Experience is an inside experiment.OSHO



There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is

translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you

in all time, this expressionis unique.

Martha Graham



Who you are is absolutely unimaginable.

When you stop imagining yourself in any form, there is a revelation

that has never been spoken,but is directly experienced.

Gangaji



Through sustained focus and meditation on our patterns, habits,

and conditioning, we gain knowledge and understanding of our past and how we can change

the patterns that aren’t serving us to live more freely and fully.

Yoga Sutra III.18



The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.

Yogi Bhajan



May all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the

thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom

for all.Prayer For All Beings



Let your practicebe a celebration of life.

Seido lee deBarros



Remember, it doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go – what does matter is who you are when

you get there.Max Strom



Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and eventually

the joy inside will look outto see who is there.

Rumi



The goal is not to tie ourselves in knots...we're already tied in knots.

The aim is to untiethe knots in our hearts.

The aim is to unite with the ultimate, loving, and peaceful

power in the universe.Max Strom



Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others.

It means being mindful of the world around us.

Christy Turlington



You cannot discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose

sight of the shore.Anon



Yoga heals, nourishes, and challenges us. The practice

infiltrates every corner of our lives.Valerie Jeremijenko



Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically

beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or

agnostic, to embraceand enjoy a practice.

Christy Turlington



The yogi realizes that his life and all its activities are part of the divine action in nature, manifesting and operating in the form of man. In the beating of his pulse and rhythm of his respiration,

he recognizes the flow of the seasons and the throbbing of universal life…

BKS Iyengar



Yoga is acting in such a way that all of our attention is directed

toward the activity inwhich we are engaged.

Desikachar



Live each present moment completely and the future will take

care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each instant.

Yogananda



It's a yoga practice,not a yoga perfect.

Unknown



Yoga calms me down.It’s a therapy session,

a workout, and meditationall at the same time!

Jennifer Aniston



Yoga is not a passive practice. The life of the [Yoga practitioner] is not normal. A normal life is one spent

trying to avoid pain and seek pleasure. The [Yoga practitioner], on the other hand, experiences pain and

pleasure with equanimity.Sharon Gannon



Yoga is not aboutself-improvement,

it's about self-acceptance.Gurmukh



A few minutes of deep relaxation a day can remind you that even when you're busy on the outside,

there's a quiet place within. Do the practice as if your life depends on

it.. Because it does.Dr. Timothy McCall



Above all, I want us to remember that the way we step on the mat is no different from the way we live our life. There's absolutely no difference. I bring my total being to my practice. Do I push myself in my practice?

Then I push myself in my life.Judith Hanson Lasater.



Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Buddha



The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today.

B.K.S. Iyengar



Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had

chosen it.Eckhart Tolle



Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Ovid



Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary

things, this is the best seasonof your life.

Wu-Men



Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of

temper which is meant by yoga. Work done with anxiety about

results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of

self-surrender.The Bhagavad Gita



We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still

water that we can see. Taoist Proverb



People sometimes ask me what difference Yoga practice has made

in my life. The answer is it’s changed everything for me.

And, in a funny way,it’s changed nothing.

Lama Surya Das



I feel certain that the change wrought by my practice also

changes the world. I don’t see how it can be otherwise. Everything is

interconnected in the fabric of oneness. Awakening affects the

entire world.Richard Miller



I did not come to yoga to stretch. I came to live.

Maya Breuer



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