Yoga is so important, especially with the kind of life we all live. Not only does it do great for the body, but also for the mind.
I like to do yoga because it centers me and makes me realize truly what’s important.
I took up special yoga and a diet from Sreenath Vishnu. And amazingly, I lost 5.5 kgs in 20 days and my husband Mani shed six kilos in a month.
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.
Yoga is not about the history of yoga. Yoga is not about being in a sacred community of the initiated few. Yoga is about uniting inward, which takes place in the present, not the past, in each and every moment.
The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.
I love yoga. There’s a lot of stretching involved, which helps with my flexibility and injury prevention. Vinyasa is my favorite as a recovery tool and for me to continue having my legs feel good.
I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.
I love yoga and also work out a lot in the gym.
I won’t tow the party line of doing ‘girlie’ yoga and cardio for physical transformations.
I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one’s life-not just the physical aspects.
I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don’t want to be a weak, sick 90-year-old.
I’m really big on the gym and yoga. I’m at the gym at least six days. That is just getting there and creating those endorphins and sweating. And that routine also keeps me grounded in spite of whatever my life looks like.
I like doing yoga. I do yoga three times a week and I do Pilates twice.
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
‘The New Black Yoga’ originally was born from a film that I had made prior called ‘Black Yoga.’ And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.
In yoga, you need to focus on staying in the moment in a sometimes uncomfortably hot room. That focus and alertness help when I’m riding waves.
I have a more personal insight into the importance of core strength because my wife Louise runs a Pilates studio in London. I have enjoyed getting into Pilates. I am not the most supple but I enjoy Pilates more than yoga.
Yoga carves you into a different person – and that is satisfying physically.
Friday nights don’t tend to be late as I like getting up early on Saturday. By 8am, you can find me in a yoga class. It’s great to kick off the weekend with some exercise and it does set you up for the day.
I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.
Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
I do Y7 Yoga; I take a lot of Akin’s Army classes, soul cycle, boot camps, tone house, SLT, boxing. I do everything.
Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it’s not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It’s not competitive; it’s not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination.
I’m incredibly lazy. On a day off, I’m more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and about being active. I sometimes do a bit of yoga but I find it hard to get motivated for any kind of physical exercise.
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you’re aware in anything you do – and it doesn’t have to be yoga – it changes you. Being present changes you.
Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it’s only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.
The word ‘yoga’ means union. It’s like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.
I didn’t develop DDP YOGA for yogis. DDP YOGA is its own animal; if yoga was a bicycle, DDP YOGA would be a Harley.
Iyengar yoga, hatha yoga, vinyasa flow – I love them all! My go-to is vinyasa, but I really love a mix of the purist forms and the fun stuff.
Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
It helps to have a fit body if you are meditating. Yoga conditions the body so that the mind can meditate.
Yoga did not just help me with my body, I became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better. In the movies, we may look very glamourous and fit, but believe me, not many of us are actually fit from within. Yoga has helped me achieve that.
I exercise at home – light cardio and yoga.
I follow a routine on a daily basis, which comprises dance class, gymnastics, and going to the gym. I also spend about half an hour on yoga, too.
I love the way yoga makes me feel and sharing that with other people so they can feel the way I do.
Yoga has primarily helped me with essential lung exercises which helped me normalise my oxygen levels in many ways.
I wear yoga pants and get to work out all the time – it’s my job. I feel a little bit different when I go into what I call ‘the real world.’ It’s cool to be able to train as a full-time job, and it’s something that I love and will continue to try to make work for the next however-many years.
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
Yoga really destresses me.
I like yoga.
Since yoga is a very slow and structured practice, I was able to keep up a routine throughout my Covid phase, and yoga really did wonders for me.
I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I’ll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.
I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.
Before, if I’d had a stressful day, I’d go to meet my friends in the pub and have a moan. Now I go to yoga.
While I was in India, my yoga teacher asked me to start teaching, and my life became about that for years. I taught 18 classes a week, therapeutics, and traveled to study with other teachers.
Mountain pose is the mother of all poses. The alignment of mountain pose is contained within every yoga posture.
Relationships are like the world’s most intense yoga! It’s a daily practice.
I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.
I was religious with the way I stretched, the way I would do my soft-tissue work, whether it be massages or foam rollers. I was very good about getting in the hot tub and cold tub, and getting in the training room. I also love to do yoga, and I give yoga a lot of credit for my longevity in the NFL.
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
At any Maroon 5 concert, you’ll see a room backstage marked ‘yoga.’
India is abundant in ayurveda, yoga, meditation, holistic wellness, therapists, energy healers, natural and chemical-free skincare, haircare organic foods and more.
I learned a few years ago that balance is the key to a happy and successful life, and a huge part of achieving that balance is to instill rituals into your everyday life – a nutritious balanced diet, daily exercise, time for yourself through meditation, reading, journaling, yoga, daily reflection, and setting goals.
I’ll do very light, very easy yoga in my dressing room. I like to just lay down on the floor and put my legs on the wall and stretch and just be still.
I don’t like doing really rigorous exercise. I don’t mind a bit of yoga.
I love yoga because it’s very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It’s part of my life, and I can’t imagine not doing it.
I got a yoga mat, I do yoga twice a week. I do both regular and hot yoga. Lululemon has an extra large yoga mat, longer and wider, so it fits me.
I do a lot of jivamukti yoga; it keeps me supple, strong and focused.
I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
I might be a pretty earthy, crunchy girl, yes. There might be some crystals and Buddhas in my house. I may meditate and eat all green and compost… Yoga is a very regular part of my life.
For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole – their mind, body, and spirit.
