I find with yoga, kids come and they can just be themselves, they don’t have to be anything other than what they are....

Abby Wills

What are the benefits of yoga practice, personally? I feel more comfortable just being myself. I see what an amazing miracle life is.

Angela Farmer

Women find that they bring strength and the empowerment from their yoga studies or practice, into their daily family and community lives.

Anne Obrien

If I allowed myself to start my day in a grounded practice that allowed me to touch in with that quiet, still place inside myself....

Anne Ornish

I think that's a balance we look for, all through our lives, what is the right action? How do you find the right action? It comes from skillful means. It comes from our practice....

Beryl Bender Birch

Yoga as we know, is transformational, it’s life changing. But what I think I really love about yoga is it does that in very, very subtle ways...

Caroline Shola Arewa

Yoga is like coming home. So that searching that you’re doing, to make yourself happy, to find a thing that will make you happy, is already within you....

Claire Missingham

My main inspiration for myself and for women is to be kind and to not have to push and deplete but to use the yoga practice as restoration....

Colleen Saidman Yee

I can pretty much guarantee that anybody that comes to a good yoga class and sticks with it, it’s going to bring confidence and joy to your life....

Cyndi Lee

When you get into a practice like yoga, it helps you to find what’s the healthy body weight, and condition for your body type.....

Deborah Saliby

It’s sneaky this yoga, it’s so sneaky, it goes in and it transforms every part of your life, it changes your desires, it changes the friends you want to hang out with...

Desirée Rumbaugh

When you practice, you don’t practice for an effect. You don’t practice for the onlooker. You don’t practice to get some wonderful enlightenment or whatever...

Dona Holleman

I think to live in harmony and balance in nature you have to find the harmony and balance within your own nature.

Donna Farhi

The yogic teachings about diet are so beautiful and they’re so in keeping with what our modern science is telling us...

Dr Cathy Stallworth

Yoga teaches a person to live in harmony, where there is a balance within themselves, and in their emotions and their intellect....

Dr Shirley Telles

Increasingly I have been turning to yoga as a way to help women make connection between what we know about empowerment...

Dr. Beth Berila

Yoga is a method to follow to help your body and your breath and your mind move into, that peaceful state...

Dr. Constantina Rhodes

I just think that yoga gets you into a place of hormonal balance, emotional fulfillment, it prevents depression, and it prevents anxiety...

Dr. Sara Gottfried

We have proven that the yoga pilot program has led to wonderful satisfaction in women who feel in control of their labor and delivery experience....

Dr. Tina Navarez

I think that acceptance of myself has to come not only with practicing yoga but with physical strength that I can now perceive and experience in my own body....

Elena Brower

In order to give to other people you have to give to yourself. You have to be able to support your own strengths to be able to give....

Ellen Saltonstall

So yoga can help us to relax into this beauty of being a woman. It can give us trust back into our femininity, a sense of intuition....

Gabriela Bozic

Yoga is not all about bending, stretching and becoming supple. What yoga is more about is becoming more intelligent...

Gabriella Guibilaro

There are several benefits of yoga. One of them of course is the health. The physical health. To maintain our health....

Indra Mohan

In this practice what we get to do is we get to move our bodies, connect with our breath and somewhere in that journey find a still point...

Janet Stone

The whole point of yoga really is what you do on your mat or in your field of practice and how does that affect your daily life...

Jenny Sauer Klein

If you want to change your life or heal your life, you need to bring yoga into your daily life....

Jnani Chapman

Our yoga practice and I’m using that in the widest sense, can evoke from ourselves a certain compassion for the process of life itself...

Judith Lasater

I think one of the most impressive things with women senior teachers in the States is just what incredible role models they are...

Kaitlin Quistgaard

As a teacher I love providing the space for a woman to come in and take all this incredible energy that she is lavishing on everything, and put it all on herself....

Katchie Ananda

One of the wonderful things about yoga is it is designed to meet you where you are....

Kate Holcombe

Yoga gives woman space. Mentally, emotionally and physically. Women have many hats, that of a career person....

Katy Appleton

You need to know what’s there, you know, you need to know how to move it. You need to know how to stretch it and strengthen it...

Leslie Howard

Yoga isn’t about trying to be 22 years old again, it really is something much more fun....

Lilias Folan

Yoga helps women become friends with ourselves. We learn through yoga that we are perfect just the way we are....

Linda Sparrowe

Japanese women are very much interested in yoga. Because today's modern woman is not merely interested in physical beauty....

Mae Yoshikawa

I think the yoga practice helps us to accept the beauty of our cycles and our changes and that there is beauty in ageing....

Marla Apt

The Art of Yoga Project, yoga is really an alignment with your best self. Analignment with the best person that you can be...

Mary Lynn Fitton

Yoga changed my life. I couldn’t teach anybody. Now I can teach, I can stand in front of a million people and teach them yoga....

Mary Wanjiru

Menaka Desikachar

Pregnant women come to yoga and try it out and they get a sense of peace and calm. They get a little taste of their true self...

Nadine Richardson

My physical yoga practice has always given me the ability to settle.....

Nikki Costello

Because of my yoga practice, I recognize that I don’t have to react. There’s a conscious awareness that kicks in.

Nikki Myers

The expansiveness of yoga grows when we allow the heart and the head to work together. If we go into our own heart and feel the intuitive process...

Nischala Joy Devi

It’s fascinating because yoga in the west was brought by this lineage of male teachers and these women have kind of taken it to their own....

Nora Isaac

So we’re raising the money to be able to empower the teacher to become a leader in their community and make change happen...

Paige Elenson

I think many women feel fragmented in their lives because they are so busy and they’re pulled in so many different directions....

Patricia Walden

To be a woman yogi in the olden days was to take your, put yourself completely outside the bounds of normal society...

Sally Kempton

Within the yoga practices, the postures, the breathing, the living practices - it contains everything that we need....

Sally Pugh

I think one of the main benefits is being more at home in our own skin. This body is our particular garden to take care of....

Sarah Powers

Yoga meets you where you're at. But stay open to the understanding that the more you do Yoga, doors open, and the invitation is to simply explore...

Seane Corn

I want them to understand that it’s the flexibility of their minds that’s so much more important than the flexibility of their bodies....

Shana Meyerson

According to the Hatha yoga text or the ancient scriptures, listening is very, very important. Through listening, we can begin to hear....

Sharon Gannon

I think when you go through a storm, you experience really what is your compass, your inner compass. What do you really rely on?

Shiva Rae

Inside a pose. Within a minute. Within one practice your entire state can transform itself. From fear to love...

Sianna Sherman

Suzanne Sterling

What yoga has done for me is to slow down the aging process and maybe it’s one of the secrets of yoga that it is really the fountain of youth....

Tari Prinster

My emphasis has always been on the energetics, the awakening, the release, the ecstasy and the joy that can be got through yoga...

Vicki Noble