A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
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As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
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Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
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I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
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I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
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I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
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I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
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I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
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I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
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It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
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It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
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Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
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People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
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Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
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Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
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When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
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Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
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Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
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Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
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Yoga is not a religion to me.
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