30 Yoga Taglines to Remind You Why You’re on Your Mat

The spirit of yoga, summarized.

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Your relationship to yoga likely shifts from day to day—or even moment to moment. But taking a beat to find the words that already resonate within you or that you really need to be reminded of can help connect you to your practice. These yoga mantras and personal practice taglines help transform the unfathomable power of yoga into a memorable, easily repeatable phrase.

Although it’s difficult to distill yoga and all that comes with it into a few words, that won’t stop us and other yoga teachers from trying! We asked friends, followers, and our editors to share their go-to yoga sayings right now. The result is a master list of mantras that you can come back to again and again, on and off the mat.

30 Yoga Mantras That Honor the Practice

1. Small moves, big shifts.

2. A little goes a long way.

3. Nothing to do, nowhere to go.

4. Just be slow.

5. Be aware.

6. Thoughts and feelings pass like clouds.

7. I’m safe in my body.

8. It’s all part of the process.

9. Be here now.

10. I am enough.

11. Everything is yoga.  

12. I release control.

13. This is my time.

14. Do it with love.

15. Let it go.

16. There’s nothing to do, and nothing to undo.

17. Sit with it.

18. Intention matters.

19. I’m allowed to take things in, I’m allowed to let things go.

20. Move with purpose.

21. I can stop telling any story. [[not quite clear. is this maybe something like, “I can stop telling myself old stories”?]]

22. Yoga is not a performance.

23. Breeeeathe.

24. Let the breath lead the way.

25. I am surrounded by love.

26. Cleanse that sh*t.

27. Stillness is fullness.

28. Keep it simple.

29. I have everything I need.

30. I am exactly where I need to be.