23 Very Famous Celebrities That Do Yoga

Many famous celebrities have recognized yoga as a powerful way to promote mental, physical and emotional health, resulting in a happier life. With yoga people have the choice to practice it for any purpose that they choose. Yoga is more popular in the U.S. now than in India.

In my other article about Celebrities That Do Meditation, I had to check thoroughly to verify the information since they do meditation in the privacy of their own homes. With yoga that is not needed since the celebrities usually go to classes to do yoga. I have been doing yoga since age 12. This was written in January 2012. To go back to other webpages, you can right click on the BACK button and then pick which webpage to go to.

1. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: It is easy to do a search to see that she does yoga. Also the Yoga Journal Jul-Aug 2001, says under Karma Credits:

To Hillary Clinton, who talked her husband Bill into going to a yoga class during law school 26 years ago. Comments former President Clinton: "I was the only man in the class for a long time, and it was really fun."

Former President Bill Clinton is now a vegan.

2. Gisele Bundchen: She is also in my other article on celebrities that do meditation. See that article for more on her. Also click on the link under her picture above to learn more about how she is a great role model. She said "I kept myself in good shape, eating healthily, meditating and doing exercises such as kung fu and yoga."

Kung fu is a martial art. Yoga, meditation and martial arts are closely associated. I started doing yoga at age 12. Also at that age I was also doing Chinese kenpo and tai chi. I started doing meditation at age 19. Although the last pose of yoga I was doing at age 12, was the corpse position that I would be in for around 20 minutes. So I did a meditation while doing that but it was not a sitting meditation. She tries to practice Anusara yoga every day.

3. Katy Perry

4. L. A. Lakers: They practice yoga as a team a few times a week.

5. Jennifer Aniston: She has been practicing yoga for around 10 years. It has helped her with her breakup with ex-husband Brad Pitt.

6. Kate Beckinsale: She is the star of the Underworld movies about vampires and werewolves. When she was 5 years old, her father died of a heart attack. She said "I loathed being a teenager." She had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia nervosa at the age of 15 and underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years.

She is 38 years old. Ask for her anti-aging secrets and she laughs. “Yoga, yoga, yoga. Plus, it just helps to grow up in England, where I think there have only been two sunny days my entire life.”

7. Madonna: She practices strenous Ashtanga yoga.

8. Drew Barrymore: She does power yoga.

9. Reese Witherspoon

10. Natalie Portman

11. Jessica Alba

12. Halle Berry

13. Megan Fox

14. Gwyneth Paltrow: She has had a private yoga studio built inside her London home.

15. Meg Ryan: She is very serious about yoga and even spent some time in Indian ashrams.

16. Heather Graham

17. Evander Hollyfield: He has been practicing for years and claims that it helps him concentrate and remain focused on his matches and daily life.

18. Hillary Duff

19. Cameron Diaz

20. Anna Kournikova

21. Lady Gaga

22. Kristen Davis: She used to teach yoga before becoming a famous actress. She was in Sex and the City .

23. Sting: He practices yoga with his wife. He said:

It’s reversing the aging process. I can do things with my body now that I wouldn’t even have thought of doing when I was an athlete, a teenager. So that keeps me going. This is something I want to keep doing.

Just added March 29, 2012-- Video of New York Giants doing yoga. See below.