K. Pattabhi Jois famous quotes

04-17-2025

Do your practice and all is coming.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Practice
Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Men #Lazy People
Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Practice #Circus
Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Mind #Body
So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, itâ€™s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Dog #Firsts #Your Presence
It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Philosophy #Yoga #Practice
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Heart #Devotion
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Mind #Want
There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body is diseased. The yoga scriptures say â€œManayeva manu Ä Ä kara a bandha mok ayo (this verse may be transliterated incorrectly),â€ the mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. If the mind is sick and sad, the whole body gets sick, and all is finished. So first you must give medicine to the mind. Mind medicine: that is yoga.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Medicine #Giving
Yoga is your mind control capacity.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Mind #Capacity
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Spiritual #Yoga #Practice
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Yoga #Practice #Theory
It would beÂ a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois

#Jewels #Ignorant #Would Be

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