FAVORITE YOGA QUOTES

“In the spirit of Ha-tha, we must learn how to have one foot on the Sun, with our day-to-day business of living in the world, and one foot on the Moon, tending to the world of the psyche and the spirit.”—Bhavani Maki, The Yogi’s Roadmap

“Achieving the pose is not the point, it is simply a challenge that brings awareness to parts of the body and mind that are dull or unexplored.”—Patricia Walden

“As we make space, frozen structures melt, old patterns decrystalize, or to paraphrase Lao Tzu, the knots untangle of themselves. In the process, potent energies locked in the rigid structures are liberated to fuel the healing process.”—Lorie Eve Dechar, Five Spirits

“Don’t force yourself open. Wait for your unwinding core to invite you in. Release the dense, stubborn tissues that hold you bone to bone. Sense the soft organs that float inside the protective shell of your skeleton. Hear your body start to sing in it’s ancient language of sensation and emotion. Begin to excavate the relics of memory buried deep in this city of muscle, nerves and bones. Your body is made of stories. And with every breath, you will learn the present is made of the past.”—Anne Cushman, Enlightenment for Idiots

"The work of yoga is to coax the mind into letting go of the perceptions and ideas that keep it stuck, so it can expand and reveal itself as it really is. As vast creative Awareness. Pure light and ecstasy. An ocean of peace and power. The Self."—Swami Durgananda