12 Yoga Quotes To Inspire & Motivate Your Practice

Do you ever have those days where you’re struggling to head to your mat for yoga practice? From the moment you roll out of bed, your mind is giving you all the reasons to enjoy a day of rest. You sleep through your alarm, lie in bed, and open the phone to see what new on Instagram. With that, your intention for the day has taken a wrong turn.

If this story sounds familiar and has happened more than once, don’t sweat it. Sometimes all we need is a bit of motivation to help us get our fire back.

This collection of 12 yoga quotes will help you find intention and purpose in your practice again. Who knows, you might find the perfect quote that delivers the message you needed to hear to make today the game changer.

“Yoga is a dance between control and surrender – between pushing and letting go – and when to push and when to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being.”

~ Joel Kramer

“The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.”

~ B.K.S. Iyengar

“The chakras are very intelligent. They are like the software of the whole computer body.”

~ Dharma Mittra

“In our uniquely human capacity of connect movement with breath and spiritual meaning, yoga is born.”

~ Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

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

~ Terri Guillemets

“Yoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”

~ Amit Ray

“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

“The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga of union.”

~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Without proper breathing, the yoga postures are nothing more than calisthenics.”

~ Rachel Schaeffer

“For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.”

~ Sanskrit Proverb

“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

“The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.”

~ Sri Aurobindo