Prema Shanti Yoga

Nuggets of Wisdom to Enhance Your Yoga Experience

Aum
Om

May we be protected together
May we be nourished together,
May we work together with great vigor,
May our study be enlightening,
May there be no hatred between us,
Om shanti, shanti, shanti
Peace, peace, peace

Lead us from the unreal to the real
Lead us from darkness into the light
Lead us from death to immortality
(Lead us from conflict and suffering to harmony, peace, and happiness)
Om shanti, shanti, shanti
Peace, peace, peace
‘Upanishands’

Mahayana Buddhism Prayer

May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably interconnected, be fulfilled, awakened and free. May there be peace in this world and throughout the entire universe, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey.
“Awakening the Buddha”
Lama Surya Das

Embrace the Flow
And let it guide you.
Rumi

If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.
Anonymous

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang Tsu

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?
Tao Te Ching

“Inhale and God approaches you
Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you.
Exhale and you approach God.
Hold, the exhalation, and surrender to God”
Krishnamacharya-Cycles of Breath as an act of surrender

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will know the Force when you are calm at peace…
The Force is my ally and a powerful ally it is
Life creates it, makes it grow
Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
Yoda spoke to Luke skywalker
“The Empire Strikes Back”

Something opens our wings
Something makes boredom and hurt disappear.
Someone fills the cup in front of us
We taste only sacredness.
Rumi

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us”
Nelson Mandela, 1994
Inaugural address

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field
I’ll meet you there
Rumi

Namaste, I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me.
We are one