Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
Beryl Bender BirchMy sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.
Beryl Bender BirchI really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.
Beryl Bender BirchLots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.
Beryl Bender BirchI'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the things that quantum physicists are talking about today, like non-locality and the observer effect, are things the yogis have been saying for thousands of years.
Beryl Bender Birch