News | Health Benefits | Science | 2008 Festival Photos | Yoga News Feed | FAQ

Quotes from featured Yoga Month Teachers

"Yoga is such a powerful tool in helping you to integrate into your body...after you center you are able to listen and fine tune how your body functions creating optimum health and awareness in your life. I adore the power that Yoga has to heal body mind and spirit"

Mariel Hemingway, actress and author of Mariel's Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life

“Scientific studies have already found yoga to benefit people with 50 different health conditions, and the list keeps growing. Yoga is also great preventive medicine, and a way to be happier, and more relaxed and effective in your life. National Yoga Month 2009 is providing a vital service by spreading this message, and by bringing yoga to underprivileged kids who otherwise might not have the opportunity.”

Timothy McCall, MD, Medical Editor Yoga Journal, Author of Yoga as Medicine

For over a thousand years, the health benefits of Hatha Yoga have been well documented.  For more than 2500 years, the great meditation teachers including the Buddha have recognized the emotional advantage of adopting Yoga outlook.  National Yoga Month helps to continue this tradition of seeing the vital connection between body, mind, and spirit.  See, learn, participate, practice ... and change your world!

Chris Chapple, Professor Loyola Marymount University

“National Yoga Month sets an example for the world to see. Yoga teachers of all traditions forming a peaceful union for the betterment of society”

Larry Payne Ph.D., Founder, Samata International Yoga and Health Center
& Prime of Life Yoga, Co-author, Yoga for Dummies, Yoga Rx & The Business of Teaching Yoga

“The mission of YogaFit is to bring healing yoga to the masses. Yoga is a gift for the body and the mind. I believe that if everyone in the world gave one hour per week of community service work, the world be a better place. This is why Yoga Month is so important. Yoga can benefit anyone-physically, mentally and spiritually- and I am proud to be a part of such a wonderful organization that is giving the gift of yoga to the nation.”

Beth Shaw, founder YogaFit