Inspirations
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My whole teaching is this; accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself
- Osho |
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“Yoga is not fancy poses.
It’s how you live your life, how you connect and how you react. It is the stuff you live off the mat, not how high you can get your feet off the ground or deep you back can bend. Yoga is about healing, and learning and acceptance. It is about joy and struggle: both. It is about steps back, moving forward and the dance in-between. Yoga is goal-less because there is NO END TO THE PRACTICE. There is no goal. The practice is eternally evolving, as is your approach to it, your needs on and off the mat, and your body’s ability to do the physical stuff. Yoga is not fancy poses. Yoga is not fancy poses. Yoga is not fancy poses. The goal of yoga is to let go of the goal.” - Flying Yogini |
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Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self to the self
- The Bhagavad Gita |
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“Yoga is not about self improvement,
it’s about self-acceptance.”
- Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
it’s about self-acceptance.”
- Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
The Goal of Yoga (No it's not the handstand)
The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal.
The goal is to create space where you were once stuck. To unveil the layers of protection you've built around your heart.
To appreciate your body and become aware of the mind and the noise it creates.
To make peace with who you are.
The goal is to love, well... YOU.
Come to your yoga mat to feel; not to accomplish.
Shift your focus and your heart will grow.
The goal is to create space where you were once stuck. To unveil the layers of protection you've built around your heart.
To appreciate your body and become aware of the mind and the noise it creates.
To make peace with who you are.
The goal is to love, well... YOU.
Come to your yoga mat to feel; not to accomplish.
Shift your focus and your heart will grow.
- Rachel Brathen
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Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world.
Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something. - Swami Satchidananda |
The study of asana is not about mastering posture.
It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself
- B.K.S. Iyengar
It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself
- B.K.S. Iyengar
“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
What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.”
- Sharon Gannon
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“The greater purpose of a formal Yoga practice, is to apply the acute attentiveness we learn on the mat to all aspects of our everyday life so that this unitive awareness filters through our relationships, our work, and our play.
...We establish a calm abiding centre, not to fortify ourselves against the chaos of life, but to help us become resilient, tolerant, and accepting of the inevitable, perplexing, and often agonizing losses we all go through. A calm abiding centre and a fully engaged life, therefore, go hand in hand. This inner tempering through the fire of practice allows us to live at higher and higher levels of charge: to feel intensely, love intensely, and work intensely without fracturing in the process." - Donna Farhi |
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Sometimes Growth Is Just Seeing It Sooner
Sometimes growth is just seeing it sooner.
You see sooner that you are silencing your voice.
You see sooner that you are acting out of fear.
You see sooner that you are projecting the past on to the present.
You see sooner that you are the one acting crazy, not them.
Because you did the work, you see it sooner.
Until our last breaths, we’ll keep missing the mark.
We will dim our light and betray ourselves.
We will cause harm to those we love.
But if we stay awake, we can learn to course correct sooner.
Stay awake and you might see it this year — and not let it extend for a decade
Stay awake and you might see it this week — and not let it extend for a year.
Stay awake and you might can see it this hour — and not let it extend for a week.
Stay awake and you’ll receive those moments of grace, those crystal ones,
when in the instant — before the first choice, the first word, the first act
you will catch it
right the moment of its beginning
and choose differently.
The turnaround is the most important part of the flight path.
When you make it, you move the whole world forward.
You plant a seed of love in the ground,
and all those who come after you thank you.
- Tara Mohr
You see sooner that you are silencing your voice.
You see sooner that you are acting out of fear.
You see sooner that you are projecting the past on to the present.
You see sooner that you are the one acting crazy, not them.
Because you did the work, you see it sooner.
Until our last breaths, we’ll keep missing the mark.
We will dim our light and betray ourselves.
We will cause harm to those we love.
But if we stay awake, we can learn to course correct sooner.
Stay awake and you might see it this year — and not let it extend for a decade
Stay awake and you might see it this week — and not let it extend for a year.
Stay awake and you might can see it this hour — and not let it extend for a week.
Stay awake and you’ll receive those moments of grace, those crystal ones,
when in the instant — before the first choice, the first word, the first act
you will catch it
right the moment of its beginning
and choose differently.
The turnaround is the most important part of the flight path.
When you make it, you move the whole world forward.
You plant a seed of love in the ground,
and all those who come after you thank you.
- Tara Mohr