International Yoga Day 2022 — a few quotes to remember and share

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted The International Day of Yoga in 2014, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressed the forum to introduce a special day for Yoga during his speech delivered on 27 September 2014.

Year on year, the International Day of Yoga is observed on 21 June.

Due to the pandemic one may not be able to organise public programmes and events to commemorate this day in 2021. You can, however, practice yoga with your family and share some valuable information, experiences, quotes and messages about yoga on social media on this day. Here are a few quotes about the International Yoga Day.

International Yoga Day quotes

Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists.

Yoga is not a command performance. It is an invitation to explore.

Yoga is as old as India.

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

The yoga pose you avoid the most you need the most.

When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.

Yoga is the Practice that originated in India but is practised widely throughout!

Yoga does not just change the way we see things, It transforms the person who sees.

This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Happy soul, a fresh mind, and a healthy body. All three can be achieved with yoga!

For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.

YOGA is the gateway to happiness that the body needs in daily life!

Yoga without requiring to be paid pays you with sound health leading to great wealth!

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, and some point, you will.

Yoga is the only key to be fit and it’s essential to do it daily to keep your mind stress free!

Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s about what you learn on the way down.

Yoga is a light, which once lit will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your flame.

True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is–including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.

Yoga is the methodology with which to unveil the miracle that exists right in front of our faces and inside ourselves.

Inculcate the habit of practicing yoga in your life!

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.

Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.

Yoga is a light which once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame.

Be a part of International Yoga day to draw more and more people towards practising Yoga!

Live long and healthy life. Each aasan a day keeps illness away. Enjoy yoga!

Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are

Yoga is all about creating a balance in your life. It is about balancing your senses, balancing your body, soul and mind in order to live healthy and live in peace.

Transcend from the state of being in the state of sorrow to that of happiness with Yoga!

When you embrace yoga, you are actually accepting the good thing around you. Happy Yoga Day to you.

The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.

Discover your inner peace with Yoga!

Yoga is all about striking a balance in life and therefore, you must make it a part of your life.

Yoga happens beyond the mat, anything you do with attention to how you feel is doing yoga.

Releasing stress and anger by practicing Yoga!

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.

Yoga means addition. Addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

Yoga Improves Immunity by freeing you from toxins!

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

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.