🌴 Favorite quotes, mantras & musings from our Yoga Barn family—sprinkled with love to inspire your practice & day.
At the Yoga Barn in Ubud, Bali, we’re more than just a space to stretch—we’re a heart-forward family of teachers, seekers, and humans walking each other home.
We asked our incredible faculty to share their favorite quotes, mantras, and life sayings—the kind of words they carry in their pocket, whisper in class, or scribble in journals. What came through was pure gold.
These aren’t just cute phrases. They’re reminders to breathe. To trust. To show up.
Quotes marked with a ★ are beloved sayings shared without a known source—deeply felt, often spoken, and now offered from the heart of our community to yours.
Read through, take what lands, and let these words walk beside you.
🌟 On Inner Peace & Presence
Byron de Marse: “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
Wakuha: “All is within you. Peace is within you. That peace with you is that peace you make with yourself. And that actually is your mind.” ★
Valerie: “Trust in life.” ★
Lawrence Jay: “Don’t worship the gates, you enter the inner temple.” – Ram Dass
Tina Nance: “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles F. Kettering
Katya: “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
💖 On Love & Connection
Malika: “We are love, we are loved, we are loving.” ★
Alyssa Goldberg: “Go within & let love in.” ★
Kerry Clancey: “Go within and let love in. Go deep! I’ve got you!” – Kerry Clancey
Shervin Boloorian: “Safety is not the absence of threat, but the presence of connection.” – Gabor Maté
Alistair Booth: “Love is the answer.” ★
S.eed: “Love yourself.” ★
Leah Santa Cruz: “You will always find the evidence for what you choose to believe.” – IN-Q
Oksana Sokol: “Curiosity is the compass of the heart.” ★
🧘 On Spiritual Wisdom
Charley Patton: “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso
Francie La Flow: “The Guest House” This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Juliya Light: “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” – The Bhagavad Gita
Daniela Garza Rios: “Yad bhavam tad bhavati: As you worship, so you become.” – Bhagavad Gita
Jana Johnson: “Spirituality is a calling of responsibility to each other and to our world. It is a calling to act and not just reflect, to engage and not just contemplate.” – David Spangler
“What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
Emily Kuser: “Already free. Already holy. Already whole.” ★
Tanya Kaps: “We are already whole, already holy, already free.” ★
Adolf Brown: “We are spiritual beings of light and energy living in physical bodies (but somebody forgot to tell us).” – Adolf Brown
🌱 On Growth, Action & Transformation
Punnu Wasu & Abasin: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Cyrus: “If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” – Tony Robbins (commonly attributed)
Rodolo Young: “When life gets harder, challenge yourself to get stronger.” – Her Highness Sayyida Basma Al Said
Thoriq Cravo: “In ignorance, fear takes root. In understanding, light breaks through. In that light, we live—and in living, we learn to love life.” ★
Sebastian Cuevas: “Gratitude is the key to abundance, be kind.” – Reggie Riverbear
Melani Koch: “Don’t create as many experiences as possible, but feel the depth of them.” ★
🌬 On Breath, Body & Being
Lisa McKnight: “The mind is the ruler of the body, and the breath the ruler of the mind.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
Jordi Jules: “The deeper your roots, the higher your branches. The more you ground, the stronger your connection.” ★
Thofan: “Live life to the fullest.” – Common Saying
Paul Teodo: “The people that I know that are happy, fall in love with something in their lives and they work on it every day.” – Larry Moss
Chocolako: “You can’t change the past and you can’t predict the future, but you can ruin the present by worrying about both.” ★
Final Word
Take what speaks to you and run with it.
Write it on your mirror. Say it while making tea. Whisper it in class.
These quotes are like tiny anchors—or sparks.
Huge thanks to our Yoga Barn family for sharing what lights them up.
May these words move through your week like little love notes from the universe. 💛
Keep showing up. Keep flowing. Keep being you.
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