Little Yogi Journey: an interactive yoga poem for children

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A yogi is a person who can compute everything—good and bad, said and unsaid—through consciousness. That’s the true definition of a yogi.” — Yogi Bhajan

Yoga Lessons Need inspiration for your yoga class or practice? Use the themes in our Yoga Lessons for focus, intention and guidance. Our Yoga Lessons are not lesson plans, but general outlines with spiritual quotes, focused intentions, lists of yoga practices and further off-the-mat homework exercises. Want to share a yoga lesson with us? Post it here! 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. The saints have found that happiness lies in a constant mental state of unruffled peace during all the experiences of earthly dualities. A changeable mind perceives a changeable creation, and is easily disturbed; the unchangeable soul and the unruffled mind, on the other hand, behold, behind the masks of change, the Eternal Spirit. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Inspiring Yogi Quotes

Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate fully in our lives. We train in rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others. ― Pema Chodron Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

When you make someone happy, you see his or her happy face and feel happy yourself. If you have really experienced the joy of just giving something for the sake of giving, you will wait greedily for opportunities to get that joy again and again. Many people think that by renouncing everything, by becoming selfless and desireless, there is no enjoyment. No. That is not so. Instead, you become the happiest man or woman. The more you serve, the more happiness you enjoy. Such a person knows the secret of life. There is a joy in losing everything, in giving everything. You cannot be eternally happy by possessing things. The more you possess, the more sad you become. ― Sri Swami Satchidananda You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul." - B.K.S Iyengar To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself. ― Thich Nhat Hanh All I’m saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process ‘blueprinting’ because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

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If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. — Sri Swami Satchidananda When you are looking in the mirror, you are looking at the problem. But, remember, you are also looking at the solution.

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play – and don’t play to bring their parents glory.” – Yogi Berra The nature of all material things is impermanent, and that it is thus foolishness to expect permanent happiness by clinging to material forms and objects. — Paramahansa YoganandaIf I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.” – Yogi Berra The question is, “Are you spiritual or are you not?” The Truth is you are. The reality is you don’t believe it.” — Yogi Bhajan Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled.

Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.” — Yogi Bhajan In this lecture, “Learn to be you” Yogi Bhajan, also known as the Siri Singh Sahib, discusses how to live authentically. This lecture is very intense and gives you great insights into Yoga Bhajan’s teachings. This lecture is from February 12, 1995 at the Guru Ram Das Ashram in Los Angeles, CA. Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more.In MacNeice’s best work, the ingeniousness and inevitable failure of that reaching indicates the depth of the longing. He is a superb love poet, for instance, yet his love poems often foreground their own ephemerality, like ice sculptures in the summertime. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built. Yankees legend Yogi Berra passed away in 2015, but on Opening Day, we can’t help but think of the great catcher and manager. An 18-time All-Star, Berra appeared in 14 World Series as a member of the Yankees and won 10 of them. A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet. ― Pema Chodron Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within. ― Sadhguru