30 yoga taglines to remind you why you’re on your mat

Your relationship with 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 you connect with your practice. These yoga mantras and personal practice taglines help transform the unfathomable power of yoga into a memorable, easily repeatable phrase.

Although it is difficult to distill yoga and all that it entails into a few words, that will not stop us and other yoga teachers from trying! We asked friends, followers and our editors to share their go-to yoga sayings now. The result is a master list of mantras that you can return 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 am 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 the control.

13. This is my time.

14. Do it with love.

15. Let it go.

16. There is nothing to do and nothing to undo.

17. Sit with it.

18. Intention matters.

19. I can take things with me, I can let things go.

20. Move with purpose.

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

22. Yoga is not a performance.

23. Breeeeehee.

24. Let the breath lead the way.

25. I am surrounded by love.

26. Clean that sh*t.

27. silence is fullness.

28. Keep it simple.

29. I have everything I need.

30. I am exactly where I need to be.