When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.
I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.
As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.
I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
I go to yoga classes and work on my core.
I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.
I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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