The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
At first, the idea of doing a 90-minute workout in a 40 degree room sounded like torture. But the sweating is exactly what I became addicted to. My body changed dramatically almost immediately. Within three classes, I noticed less belly fat. My knees and legs are stronger than ever now; my arms have definition for the first time in my life; and my posture is much, much better. I also feel completely energized from all of the deep breathing. I leave class relieved of any anxiety I went in with, and the sweating and detoxifying make my skin feel great.
I started doing yoga in my 20s. I did teacher training, that was what I was going to do if acting didn't work out. I started teaching other actors right at the beginning of the yoga craze - people still thought it was a little weird, but a lot of actors I knew were getting into it and didn't want to look foolish in class. So I started teaching them!
You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.
Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of your being. You have to become that.
The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.
Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love.
I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.
Environment is stronger than will.
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
Humble people dont get Offended easily.
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