41 Empowering Yoga Quotes By Sadhguru to Take Your Yoga Practice Off the Mat

Last updated on May 4th, 2024 at 08:30 am

Here’s a list of motivational and profound quotes about yoga by our favorite yogi and mystic – Sadhguru! These quotes are sure to fire up your desire to embark upon this wonderful journey of yogic exploration! Read on…

The only way out is in! – Sadhguru

The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences – a stable platform to build your life upon.- Sadhguru

Yoga means to cultivate your energy in such a way that gradually it breaks the physical limitations and elevates you to the highest level of awareness – the flowering of human potential.- Sadhguru

The idea of doing different systems of yoga, particularly hatha yoga and kriya, is to establish a certain chemistry in the system which is sweet by its own nature.- Sadhguru

You cannot fix the past, but you can create a distance with it. That is how the yogic system approaches it.- Sadhguru

Yoga is not just about twisting and turning. Yoga means to exist in union with the rest of creation.- Sadhguru

Yoga is not about going to heaven. It is about making a heaven out of yourself.- Sadhguru

Yoga needs to be practiced in a very subtle, gentle way, not in a forceful muscle building way.- Sadhguru

Yoga is not just an exercise system. Yoga is the ‘science’ of obliterating the boundaries of individuality to know the universality of one’s existence.- Sadhguru

Yoga is about moving toward a life where everything works better – your body, your mind, your energies, your emotions, even the situations around you.- Sadhguru

Yoga is a technology. If you learn to use it, it works – no matter where you come from or what you believe in or do not believe in.- Sadhguru

Yoga works miraculously. The only thing is, you have to do it.- Sadhguru

Yoga is the journey from just surviving to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.- Sadhguru

Every particle in your body is communicating with the entire cosmos. Yoga is about experiencing that.- Sadhguru

The moment you create good and bad, you are dividing the world. Once you divide it, where is the question of inclusion? Where is the question of yoga? Where is the question of becoming one with everything?- Sadhguru

Yoga does not mean just standing on your head or holding your breath. It means taking charge of your life.- Sadhguru

The basis of yoga is this: to be absolutely intense and relaxed at the same time.- Sadhguru

The process of yoga is to see how to go beyond the mind. Only when you are beyond the mind can you really be yourself.- Sadhguru

Health yoga should not be taught as an exercise from but as a live process; then asanas will lead to ecstatic states.- Sadhguru

The whole process of yoga and meditation is just this, once you have a clear space between you and your mind it is a completely different dimension of existence.- Sadhguru

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

My work is to remove the cultural frills from the yogic system and deliver it as an absolute science and technology for wellbeing.- Sadhguru

Establish yourself in yoga – then act. Beautiful things will come out of it.- Sadhguru

In yoga, you never chase an experience, you only prepare for it.- Sadhguru

If you have a sharp knife, you must have a steady knife, once you become a human being you have a sharp knife, but no steady hands, that is why Yoga.- Sadhguru

A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. For this possibility to be made use of, there is a whole system of understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it, which we refer to as yoga.- Sadhguru

Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of God is within you.’ Yoga is a method to ‘Experience the within’.- Sadhguru

Even if you practice yoga for all the wrong reasons, if you do it right, it still works.
Whatever physical activity you do – if you do it with involvement and joy, you are a karma yogi.- Sadhguru

Most people’s lives are mortgaged to the social reality around them. Yoga is about releasing the mortgage.- Sadhguru

Unless you begin to perceive life in larger and larger doses, there is really no experience of life, just mind playing over and over, same record. Yoga means breaking this cycle.- Sadhguru

In the yogic culture, Shiva is not known as a god, but as the Adiyogi or the first yogi – the originator of yoga.- Sadhguru

Allowing this life to flower into its fullest possibility is what life is about, is what yoga is about, is what spiritual process is about.- Sadhguru

Yoga has been expressed in the form of a science without stories attached to it, but if you look at it in a deeper sense, yoga and the Shiva Purana cannot be separated.- Sadhguru

In yoga, you never chase an experience, you only prepare for it.- Sadhguru

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.- Sadhguru

This is the beauty & immensity of #Yoga that it offers the possibility of creating your own destiny consciously moment by moment. Whatever your past, you can make it the stepping stone for your future.- Sadhguru

Your physical health, your psychological wellbeing, and your spiritual possibility depend on how well aligned you are with existence. Essentially, Hatha Yoga is towards establishing this alignment.- Sadhguru

Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.- Sadhguru

Yoga is about attaining to absolute Balance, piercing Clarity, and an inexhaustible Exuberance. With this, you are immensely fit for life.- Sadhguru

Hatha Yoga is not body-bending business. It is about taking charge of the way you think, feel, and perceive life.- Sadhguru

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