I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.