Useful Cues and Quotes

These are just a sampling of some of the Cues and Quotes that are in my Yoga Notebooks - Enjoy - Go to this websites online store if you would like to purchase one.

Before Class and Mental Prep

Perceive your practice as an offering to the moment or body prayer.

Empower your yoga as a study in movement potential.

Realize that the first step along the path of growth is acceptance of where you are.

Refocus your awareness from the external to the internal prior to practice.

Breath and Bandhas

Interweave the unbroken continuity of breath with conscious movement and relaxation.

Realize that yoga without breath control is stretching.

Allow the breath to emulate the ebb and flow of waves gently caressing the seashore.

Perceive the Bandhas as the core from which all movements and perceptions emanate.

Points to Ponder During Class

Yoga isn't about self-improvement, it's about self-awareness. -Patanjali

Seek the balance between effort and comfort.

Allow yielding and non-resistance to create fluidity.

Do not force your practice, let it unfold.

Diving to Deeper Levels

Release your clenched fist of self-definition to reveal the emptiness within.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter to what lies within us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perceive the body as the manifestation of consciousness.

When the mind focuses on the past or future; the present is obscured.

Facing Challenges

Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment, full effort is full victory. -Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can. -John Wooden

The last difficulty in any posture is to make it look effortless.

Savasana and Closing Thoughts

Cultivate within yourself the serenity to accept the things that you cannot change, the courage to change things that you can and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Bring peace to the mind’s turbulent waters by finding the stillness underneath.

Success is not to be measured by wealth, power or fame, but instead, by the ratio of what a person could be and what they actually are. - H.G.Wells

The only Journey is the Journey within. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Favorite Metaphors and Jokes

Michelangelo Story - When asked how he created such wonderful statues he replied - "The statues are already within the stone, all I have to do is remove the excess."
Your own statue lies within you.

Joan Rivers quote on forward bends.

"If God had meant for me to fold at the waist, he would have scattered diamonds on the ground."