Do you ever feel unbalanced. Or need encouragement to spend more time on the yoga mat? I definitely feel that way every month at some point.
Improving your balance doesn’t just prevent you from falling or help you to stop being so clumsy. Improving your balance can also mean balancing your life, or being balanced mentally. Being more balanced in your yoga practice might be something you need to work on and you are looking for motivation.
Balancing can be so important to your everyday life even outside of yoga, doing certain balancing poses can have you tapping into some deep muscles while also benefiting you mentally by aiding you in being more focused. In order to fully be able to improve your balance you must challenge yourself. Having a calm mind will also help immensely when you are trying to improve your balance, calming your mind is actually essential to achieving a good balance. Calm your mind with the best yoga quotes about balance that can be found on the internet.
Here are some of my favorite yoga quotes about balance. I hope they inspire you as much as they have inspired me!
Our Favorite Quotes about Having Balance During Yoga
1.“Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.” – Rachel Brathen
2.“Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.” – Amit Ray
3.“The very heart of yoga practice is abhyasa; steady effort in the direction you want to go.” – Sally Kempton
4.“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.” – Indra Devi
5.“Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within” – Unknown
6. “Yoga is not about practicing your defined poses. It’s about what your body learns, how nimble and flexible you become, and what experience you gain throughout the process.” – Debasish Mridha
7.“Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.” – Bob Harper
8. “We do yoga to make life more beautiful… to stop misery from entering our world.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
9.“Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy.” – B. K. S. Iyengar
10.“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.” – Ymber Delecto
11.“Peace cannot be enforced from outside. It is a consequence of how we are within ourselves.” – Sadhguru Jaggi
12.“The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development… Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
13.“You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga.” – Debasish Mridha
14.“Yoga takes you closer to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
15.“Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.” – Harbhajan Singh Yogi
16.“The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.” – T.K.V. Desikachar
17.Calming the mind is yoga. Not just standing on the head.” – Swami Satchidananda
18.“Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It’s challenging enough to hold either one, let alone both, in perfect equipoise, but that is the goal if we want to be balanced.” – Sebastian Pole
19.“Yoga means ‘union’. It is often interpreted as the union of mind, body, and soul, and can provide perfect harmony and balance.” – Nancy Hine
20.“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
21. “When mind controls man, it’s… Bhoga (bondage). But when a man controls the mind, it’s… Yoga!” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
22.“You cannot always control what goes on outside.But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
23.“You don’t go to a Guru for solace. He is not a tranquilizer, he is there to awaken you.” – Sadhguru Jaggi
24.“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
25.“To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value.” – Prem Prakash
26. If you are feeling frustrated with your progress on the yoga mat, this quote about balance may help you get your perspective back…
27.“When we push for immediate results and instant healing, we never inhabit the important in-between phase, which is where much of the learning and growth actually happen.” – Bo Forbes
28.“Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception.” – Debasish Mridha
29.“We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.” – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
30.“When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.” – Hatha Yoga Pradipika
31.“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles…” – Buddha
32.“Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.” – Ravi Ravindra
33.“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
34.“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
35.“Yoga is not just weight-loss program, it is a science to make you feel lighter. You lose mental stuff of anger, jealousy, hatred, greed, etc.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
36.“Yoga is about finding your own balance in our crazy, tempestuous times. It’s about standing tall with confidence even when the winds of your world are swirling around you.” – Kathryn E. Livingston
37. This yoga quote on balance from the founder of Iyengar Yoga helps remind me of the value of Yoga practice
38. “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
39.“Yoga is 99% practice & 1% theory.” – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
40.“In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present, the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
41. “Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.” – Debasish Mridha
42.“The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.” – Raphael
43.“Inhale the future, exhale the past.” – Unknown
44.“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” – Unknown
45.“This world is your body. This world is a great school; This world is your silent teacher.” – Swami Sivananda
46.“The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work – everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.” – Sadhguru Jaggi
47.“See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow.” – Dashama Konah Gordon
48.“Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won’t feel like your first.” – Gina Greenlee
49. Another gem of a quote that helps me focus on balance, especially at night.
50.“Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.” – Osho
51.“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.” – Kripalvanandji
52.“Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.” – Svatmarama
53. “The wisdom of Yoga transforms one from arrogance to self-confidence; meekness to humility; from dependence to a realization of interdependence.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
54. “People lose their balance and suffer from money madness and business mania only because they never had the opportunity of culturing habits of a balanced life. It is not our passing thoughts or brilliant ideas but our everyday habits that control our lives.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
And finally, a yoga balance quote from our team 😎
Summary of our favorite yoga quotes about balance
Improving your balance in your yoga practice can be hard, but some of these quotes might help inspire you to keep trying to achieve your goal of being more balanced, give you new ways to try to be better balanced, or even just make you aware that you are not alone.
Let me know if any of these quotes inspire you. Please share with others. And if you have any great quotes about Yoga and Balance, that I should add, please let me know in the comments.
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